Archive for January, 2009
Weekly Piracy Report (20 January 2009 - 26 January 2009)
Suspicious crafts
None reported
Recently reported incidents
22.01.2009: 2050 LT: Pampallia port, Peru.
A chemical tanker, at berth was boarded by an unknown number of robbers, while cargo operations were in progress. The deck security watchman was found to be beaten up and tied up. Upon searching, no robbers were found onboard. Authorities were informed and a coast guard [...]
HIJACKED TANKER WAS BEING ESCORTED BY WARSHIP
BERNARD Schulte-managed 4,316 dwt chemical tanker Longchamp was transiting the designated security corridor through the Gulf of Aden together with a number of other vessels including an Indian warship when it attacked and hijacked yesterday.
The shipmanager says in a statement earlier today: “The master has confirmed via a brief telephone communication that the vessel has [...]
SCHULTE-MANAGED LPG CARRIER HIJACKED
SOMALI-based pirates attacked and hijacked a Schulte-managed LPG this morning. Sky News quotes Andrew Mwangura, of the East African Seafarers Assistance Programme, as saying: “The MV Longchamp was hijacked this morning with a crew of 13 Filipinos and one Indonesian. There was a heavy exchange of gunfire [but] the crew is believed to be safe.”
The [...]
NORTH P&I CLUB AIMS TO REDUCE LIFEBOAT ACCIDENTS WITH NEW SAFETY CAMPAIGN
The ‘A’ rated, 95 million GT North of England P&I club is supporting international efforts to highlight lifeboat safety with a new DVD and poster campaign designed to reduce the risk of accidents during lifeboat drills and operation.
‘Accidents during lifeboat drills cause death and serious injury to seafarers,’ says North’s head of loss prevention, Tony [...]
IMO MEETS IN DJIBOUTI TO TACKLE PIRACY
IMO has convened a high level meeting in Djibouti to help address the problem of piracy and armed robbery against ships off the coast of Somalia and in the Gulf of Aden. The plan is to adopt a regional agreement to assist countries in the region to build capacity to suppress piracy and armed robbery [...]
JAPAN TO SEND SHIPS TO GULF OF ADEN
THE Japanese government has committed itself to sending a naval force to combat piracy in the Gulf of Aden region. The move would be a radical departure from the country’s previous policy which has been restricted by Japan’s pacifist Post-War constitution. There now however seems to be a political consensus that tackling pirates can be [...]
Munich Re sees piracy pushing up marine premiums
Munich Re expects insurance premiums against high sea piracy to rise, as well as the risk of piracy spreading in the world, the German company’s head of marine insurance Dieter Berg said.
At a UN conference on piracy on Wednesday, International Maritime Bureau Director Pottengal Mukundan told Reuters the arrival of foreign navies in the last [...]
FRENCH NAVY FOILS ATTACK ON MOL TANKER
THE French Navy has arrested nine suspected Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden, wires services report. The men were caught after the frigate Le Floreal responded to a distress call from Mitsui OSK Lines’ 150,000 dwt crude oil tanker African Ruby, which came under attack from from two small vessels.
According to reports a naval [...]
OSG SHIP BREAKS DOWN NEAR GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE
THE US Coast Guard says that Overseas Shipholding Group’s crude oil tanker Overseas Cleliamar lost power shortly after passing under the Golden Gate Bridge while outbound from San Francisco last night. The 68,628 dwt, Marshall Islands-flag ship was unladen and on passage to Ecuador.
Coast Guard vessels and local tugs responded but the 1993-built vessels anchored [...]
MARSEILLE VOLUMES STABLE DEPSITE STRIKE
Total 2008 cargo throughput at the French port of Marseilles Fos finished on 96m tonnes - just 0.3% down on 2007 despite the impact of first-half industrial action over French port reforms and a second-half slowdown due to the world economic crisis.
Meanwhile passenger throughput nudged to a record 2.04 million as cruise numbers rose 25% [...]
