⚓Maritime & ports

two fishing coasts told to stay ashore, a major hurricane's surf, and a river gauge that keeps taking draft away

Three different reasons to stop sailing, and one reason to sail lighter. Over the Bay of Bengal, winds of 50-60 gusting 70 km/h today and 55-65 gusting 75 tomorrow have already put the fishing fleets ashore, and the ports between Visakhapatnam and Gopalpur are working a closure sequence against a Sep 23 morning arrival. Off south-west Mexico a 130-mph hurricane whose core stays offshore still writes the swell: small-craft recall and port-closure timing on the Colima and Michoacan coast hang on the west-north-west turn, not on a crossing point. In the Adriatic the wind pulse holds near 20.6 metres a second at the Velebit crossing, which is a ferry-cancellation and lee-berth question on an island network, with no official colour tier asserted. And on the Rhine at Kaub the gauge reads 13.0 cm, down three — every centimetre is loadable draft, so the corridor keeps moving the same tonnage in more hulls.

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