I do remember the save issues in earlier games and now, as always i did save the game surfaced a long way from that convoy. They just decided to remove that save.

In my experience the save game issue in SH3 is pretty random in that you can follow all the rules to get a stable save only to find it's gone bad in some way. On the other hand you can break all the rules and the save loads without any problems. It's a pity that this issue hasn't been resolved by the developers of Silent Hunter 5.

Nemo