Piracy scourge affecting India’s merchandise trade
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Twenty seven-year-old Jasmeet Singh, third officer with a Norwegian merchant vessel cruising along the Horn of Africa en route to the Mediterranean sea, is a worried man. Satellite phone usage on-board is limited to senior officers like the captain and chief engineer.
But these are exceptional times. Besides his family, Singh has repeatedly called four of [...]
Suez traffic not affected
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Egypt denied that international shippers were avoiding the country’s Suez Canal, the waterway that carried a tenth of the global seaborne trade in 2007, after an escalation in piracy off east Africa. ‘We have not been notified by any shipping company that they are re-routing away from the Suez Canal because of the Somali piracy,’ [...]
Yemen negotiates for release of hijacked cargo ship
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Yemeni authorities have made contact with Somali pirates who are demanding two million dollars to release a Yemeni cargo ship they seized in the Gulf of Aden, officials said on Tuesday. “The pirates are demanding a ransom of two million dollars,” said one official, declining to be named. The vessel was on its way from [...]
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 [...]
UAE to step up measures to protect marine environment
UAE to step up measures to protect marine environment
The UAE’s Ministry of Environment will step up measures aimed at protecting marine environment and conservation of natural resources as part of the government’s strategy to achieve sustainable development.
The ministry will work out a number of policies and streamline existing regulations to prevent the extinction of marine [...]
Fate of 2 navy officers detained in S. Korea remains uncertain
Chennai, Oct. 2 The fate of two Indian merchant navy officers detained in South Korea for the last 10 months on charges of ‘negligence and violating anti pollution laws’ remains uncertain despite being declared innocent by a local court.
The master of the oil tanker Hebei Spirit, Captain Jasprit Singh Chawla and the Chief Officer, Mr [...]
AP MOLLER-MAERSK AIMS AT ZERO FATALITIES
GIANT Danish shipping group AP Moller - Maersk has published its first consolidated Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) Report and declared its intention to achieve zero fatalities against last year’s toll of 25 deaths, all within transportation divisions of the company.
The company says in a statement: “The HSE-report 2007 marks a starting point of reporting [...]
MISC ATTACKS PRESS COVERAGE
MALAYSIAN shipping company MISC has criticised the press coverage of the hijacking of two of its tankers, the Bunga Melati Dua and the Bunga Melati 5. Specifically MISC has denied media reports based on a reported phone call from a crew member on one of the vessels that the crew were running out of food.
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