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On the morning of Nov 16, the Port Authority of Milos was informed that a 69-year-old Greek passenger of the'Blue Star 1' required immediate hospital care. After the ship arrived at the port of Milos, the patient was transported by ambulance to the Milos Health Center. The ferry then continued its route to the port of Piraeus. On the evening of the same day , the Port Authority of Chania was informed that immediately after the departure of the ship, a young girl required immediate hospital care. The ship returned to the port of Souda, where it disembarked the patient and then resumed its approved itinerary.

On July 10, 2024, at noon the Central Port Authority of Piraeus was informed about the malfunction of the port side ramp of the "Blue Star 1" in the port of Piraeus. The ship was on a scheduled route from the ports of Thira-Ios-Naxos-Paros with 1036 passengers on board. Following the presentation of a certificate of class maintenance by the classifier attending it, the ship set sail in the afternoon hours to carry out its scheduled route.

In the early morning of May 4, 2024, the Central Port Authority of Piraeus was informed about a cable jamming the propeller of the 'Blue Star 1' in the port of Piraeus. An inspection was carried out by a diving crew, and the obstruction was removed from the ship's propeller shaft. Upon presentation of a certificate of class maintenance by the monitoring classification society, the ship departed from the port of Piraeus with 1229 passengers on board for its scheduled route to the ports of Syros, Patmos, Leros, Kalymnos, Kos and Rhodes.

After the 'Blue Star 1', which had hit the central pier of the port of Naxos on Nov 27, with its starboard side stern and continued its scheduled route to the ports of Paros and Piraeus with 523 passengers and 81 crew members on board after being re-certified, on Nov 28 at noon the ferry was unable to disembark the vehicles at the port of Naxos en route from the ports of Piraeus and Paros due to adverse weather conditions despite two attempts to re-approach the port. The ship finally set sail to continue its approved route to Ios and Thira. At the port of Ios, 31 passengers, six vehicles and threetwo-wheelers were waiting to board, while aboard the ship, 39 passengers and eleven 11 vehicles were waiting to disembark.