Four foreign nationals aboard the dhow suspected of smuggling Houthi weapons that was interdicted by U.S. forces on January 11 have been charged in a criminal complaint in the Eastern District of Virginia. Ten others have been detained as material witnesses.
Two Navy SEALs lost their lives in the incident, with CENTCOM subsequently releasing photographs of weaponry found aboard the dhow.
Defendant Muhammad Pahlawan is charged with: (1)...
While efforts to degrade the capabilities of the Houthis to attack merchant shipping continue, they have not yet put a stop Houthi missile attacks on ships. Yesterday, (see earlier report) Gibraltar Eagle, a Marshall Islands flagged ship owned and operated by Stamford, Conn., headquartered Eagle Bulk Shipping, was struck by what U.S. Central Command says was an anti-ship ballistic missile fired from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen. The vessel reported no injuries or significant damage.
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After building wooden ships for the last 5,000 years, the historic Beypore shipyard in Kerala, India, is about to close down, reports Ship Nostalgia.
Uru orders come to a closeOrders for its speciality – a type of dhow called an uru – have finally dried up, the Nahvind Times reported.
Beypore vesselsBeypore was a regular source of ships for Arabian traders for 1,500 years from 500 AD.
But its fame as a shipbuilding centre since 3000 BC, the age of the ancient Mesopotamian Sumerian civilisation,...
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