Incidents
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شاهد: البحرية الكولومبية تضبط 4 أطنان من الكوكايين داخل غواصة
أوقفت البحرية الكولومبية غواصة كانت تنقل كميات كبيرة من مادة الكوكايين، لتجهض أكبر عملية بحرية لتهريب المخدرات خلال العامين الماضي، وتلقي القبض على 4 أشخاص 3 منهم كولومبيون. وقال نائب قائد القوات البحرية الكولومبية فرانسيسكو هيرناندو كوبيدس غرانادوس: “في إطار عمليات مكافحة تهريب المخدرات، قامت البحرية الكولومبية بالتنسيق مع وحدات…
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Cocaine bust plus suspicious crew suicide – modern shipping routine
450 kilos of cocaine were found in a container loaded with coffee, on board of container ship MSC ADELAIDE, which arrived at Genoa, Italy, on Feb 6 from Brazil. It should be just another drug shipment in a container, quite a regular, indeed trivial, incident nowadays, if not a suspicious…
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7 cargo dhows burned out in Iran VIDEO
7 cargo dhows, 2 fiberglasses, es, and 5 wooden burned out at Nakhl Taghi port, Bushehr Province, Iran, early in the morning Feb 8. Understood some of them have been in load. No casualties, no injures reported. New FleetMon Vessel Safety Risk Reports Available: https://www.fleetmon.com/services/vessel-risk-rating/
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Drilling ship broke off moorings, allided with heavy lift ship, Rotterdam
Mega container ship EVER GENTLE wasn’t the only victim of strong winds which lashed Rotterdam on Feb 6. In Waalhaven drilling ship HIDDEN GEM broke off her moorings, drifted across a narrow basin, and allided with berthed heavy lift ship BLACK MARLIN, at around 1650 UTC Feb 6. HIDDEN GEM…
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Dryad Global : What can be learned from the IUU Fishing-Piracy Nexus?
Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) fishing is an overarching term that refers to a combination of illicit fishing practices. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) defines illegal fishing as vessels ignoring jurisdictional boundaries, conservation, and management measures adopted by regional fisheries organizations. In this Metis Insights,…
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Container ship emergency anchoring in Scheldt mouth, medevac, Netherlands
Container ship POLAR ECUADOR requested medical assistance and had to anchor in front of Vlissingen, Scheldt mouth, Netherlands, in the morning Feb 5, while sailing towards the port of destination Antwerp, on arrival from Colon, Panama. The injured crew was airlifted by helicopter and transferred to hospital, condition unknown. The…
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TORM tanker damaged, heavily listed, Taiwan
Product tanker TORM EMILIE contacted the embankment of a southern breakwater in Kaohsiung Port, Taiwan, while shifting the berths, in the afternoon of Feb 1. The ship’s hull was breached, understood in ballast tanks area, followed by water ingress and a heavy starboard list. The tanker’s carrying a cargo of…
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Maersk container ship runs aground near German Wadden Island
On the night of 2 February at about 23:05, the container ship Mumbai Maersk ran aground while approaching the Weser estuary close to the German Wadden Island Wangerooge in the North Sea. The ship was on its way from Rotterdam to Bremerhaven. At around midnight, tugs will try to pull…
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FPSO TRINITY SPIRIT sank after an explosion, Delta State, Nigeria ( Videos )
Feb 3: A Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel TRINITY SPIRIT with a capacity to process up to 22,000 barrels of oil per day, inject up to 40,000 barrels of water per day and store 2 million barrels of oil, has exploded and sunk at the Ukpokiti Terminal, around…
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Panamax bulk carrier disabled in Dardanelles
Bulk carrier PANTHER MAX suffered engine failure in Dardanelles while ballasting from Egypt to Chornomorsk Ukraine at around 1340 UTC Feb 2 north of Canakkale. Traffic Control Center was immediately alerted, SAR tugs responded and took the disabled bulk carrier to an anchorage in front of Saltik, Dardanelles. As of…
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