Missing General Cargo Ship over 25 years of age in Black Sea.
A General Cargo vessel, flag - foreign, GRT- 3009t, built in 1982, owned and managed by foreign shipping company completed loading of steel billets on 16.02. 2008 in one of the foreign ports in [...]
Pursuit of Pirates on Somali Territory Sought at UN
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By Bill Varner
Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) — Pirates could be chased onto Somali territory under a proposal the U.S. wants the United Nations Security Council to endorse, diplomats said.
A draft resolution to authorize such action has been given to some member governments on the panel, and a vote may be sought as early as next week, [...]
Shipping slowdown expected to cut deployment of seafarers
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“For seafarers, they [IMO] can see a little bit [of a downturn] in the first quarter, but they would recover in the third quarter,” Labor Secretary Marianito D. Roque told reporters at the sidelines of the department’s 75th year anniversary exhibit opening, without giving estimates. United Filipino Seafarers president Nelson P. Ramirez said in a [...]
EU to launch anti-piracy mission next week
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A European Union flotilla will begin anti-piracy operations off the coast of Somalia next week, the EU’s foreign policy chief said Wednesday. The six warships and three maritime reconnaissance aircraft will replace a NATO naval force that has been patrolling the region and escorting cargo ships carrying relief aid to Somalia since the end of [...]
Russian Register of Shipping - Guarantee for quality and safety
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Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS) has been awarded a golden medal ‘Guarantee for quality and safety’. RS has become a laureate of National Safety awards and has received a golden medal in the nomination “For the development of technical standards aimed at ensuring safety of offshore oil and gas facilities”. The National Safety awards [...]
Legal Hurdles in West Slow Pursuit of Pirates
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Somali pirates firing automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades hijacked yet another ship in the Gulf of Aden on Friday, this time seizing a chemical tanker. A German military helicopter from a nearby warship arrived in time to pull three security guards out of the water, but not soon enough to prevent the hijacking of the [...]
Somali pirates hijack 1 ship, free another
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Somali pirates seized control of a chemical tanker in the Gulf of Aden on Friday and a NATO helicopter gunship, too late to prevent the hijacking, picked up three security guards who jumped into the sea. Both France and Germany, which have ships in the area as part of an international anti-piracy coalition, sent the [...]
Shipping industry urges EU governments to take up arms against Somali pirates
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Abdul Hassan, chief of the pirate group called the ‘Central Regional Coastguard’, carries a rocket-propelled grenade on to a boat with some of his crew. Photograph: Veronique de Viguerie/Getty Images
European shipowners are urging their governments to wage war on Somali pirates and seize vessels by force, the Guardian has learned, amid growing fear that shippers [...]
Shipper calls for military force on Somali pirates
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The world’s militaries must work together to battle pirates off the Somali coast or ships will have to be diverted and the cost of moving goods will skyrocket, one of the world’s largest oil tanker companies said Friday. Frontline Ltd., which sails five to 10 tankers of crude a month through the treacherous Gulf of [...]
BW Gas, TMT, Euronav May Avoid Somalia After Attacks by Pirates
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By Alaric Nightingale and John Martens
Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) — BW Gas Ltd., the world’s biggest operator of liquefied-gas tankers, Euronav NV and TMT Co. Ltd. said they may divert ships away from Somalia after an escalation in piracy led to the capture of a Saudi Arabian supertanker.
BW Gas is urging its customers to avoid the [...]
