One seafarer has reportedly been killed while 15 others have been kidnapped after a […] The post Dryad: 1 seafarer killed, 15 kidnapped from MV Mozart appeared first on Offshore Energy.
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A Post-Panamax containership operated by Danish shipping giant Maersk has come under an attempted piracy attack in the Gulf of Guinea. The post Maersk boxship targeted by pirates in Gulf of Guinea…
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The crew of the 4,496TEU Maersk Cardiff have twice thwarted pirate attacks on the vessel in the Gulf of Guinea, once at 8pm on 13 January and again at midnight of the same day, on both occasions the crew retreated to the citadel to await the arrival of the Nigerian security forces.
Dryad Global, security firm reported that all crew were safe and that the Nigerian security vessel is now along side the Maersk Cardiff with the security forces making certain that the pirates have left the vessel...
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Iran has seized a South Korean chemical tanker Hankuk Chemi citing oil pollution in […] The post Iran claims marine pollution behind detention of Korean tanker appeared first on Offshore…
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Reporting indicates that the South Korean flagged Chemical Tanker HANKUK CHEMI (IMO9232369) has diverted her course northwards into Iranian Territorial Waters (ITW) while inbound to Fujairah from Al Jubail. Unconfirmed reporting indicates that the vessel has been detained by Iranian forces.
The vessel has a crew of 23 comprising of Indonesian and Burmese nationals.
The Fars News Agency, a media outlet for the Government of Iran has tweeted that the IRGC navy seized a South Korean ship “…due to...
The crew of a Liberian flagged tanker have found what appears to be a limpet mine attached to the vessel’s hull while conducting ship to ship operations 6 nautical miles south of the Al Bakr Terminal offshore Iraq.
The ship’s manager, Dynacom Tankers, has issued this statement:
Dynacom Tankers confirms that today at approximately 0500 hours UTC, a suspicious object was observed attached to the hull of our vessel the M/T Pola (IMO 9493767) as she was discharging her cargo during a ship to ship...
https://www.marinelog.com/news/suspicious-object-discovered-on-tanker/
A chemical tanker identified as MT New Ranger was boarded earlier today, some 160 […] The post Chemical tanker boarded in GoG for 3rd time in December as kidnapping hits new highs appeared…
A Singapore-flagged oil tanker was hit by an explosion off Saudi Arabia’s port city of Jiddah. According to reports, the explosion took place because of an external source. All 22 sailors on board escaped without injury, but there might be some chances of an oil leak.
A statement from the Hafnia indicates that the vessel was “hit from an external source whilst conducting discharge operations at Jeddah. This resulted in fire from the explosion which was extinguished with the vessel has hull...
According to Dryad, tanker vessel MV AGISILAOS was boarded by an unknown number of persons while underway resulting in the kidnap of 4 crew (2 Filipino, 1 Romanian, 1 Russian).
The vessel is now reported safe. Local authorities have been notified.
Dryad Analysis
This is the 24th confirmed kidnapping incident in the waters of the Gulf of Guinea within 2020 with 122 crew kidnapped from vessels.
This incident occurred in Ghanaian waters, 5nm from the Western edge of the Gulf of Guinea HRA, and 22nm...
According to reports from Dryad, St Kitts flagged general cargo vessel MILAN (IMO 8113619) has been boarded 14nm NNM of the Pennington Terminal 10nm from shore resulting in the kidnap of 10 crew.
With the confirmation of kidnapping, the total number of personnel kidnapped from vessels operating in the Gulf of Guinea in 2020 is 128 across 24 incidents.
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The vessel was in transit from Escravos to Douala, Cameroon. AIS indicates that the vessel was in a southbound...