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Shipowners Negotiate, 3 Sailors Abducted Since May

  • Ship owner negotiate with pirates who abducted Russian sailors.
  • Pirates abducted Russian citizens in the Gulf of Guinea in May.
  • The pirates called their families and demanded ransom, threatening to kill the sailors.

Shipowners engage in talks with the pirates who had abducted Russian seafarers, says TASS news report.

What happened?

On May 9, two ships were attacked in the waters of Equatorial Guinea.

Three Russians have been abducted as a result. One Russian has been taken from the Rio Mitong...

https://mfame.guru/shipowners-negotiate-3-sailors-abducted-since-may/

Seafarer Missing After Alleged Harassment by Chief Officer

  • A merchant navy deck cadet, Dhananjay Arora, has gone missing 500 miles from the coast of Mauritius around 5:30 pm IST on September 13.
  • He has not been found after a four-day long search and rescue operation and the Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre has suspended the operation.
  • Dhananjay, 21, was sailing on an MT New Horizon crude oil tanker ship managed and operated by Fleet Management Limited.
  • The company said that a full investigation is underway into the circumstances of the...

https://mfame.guru/seafarer-missing-after-alleged-harassment-by-chief-officer/

21 Crew Members Arrested, Ship Seized For Carrying Stolen Fuel

Mexican authorities said Sunday they have seized a ship, arrested 21 crewmembers, and shut down a warehouse presumably used to store stolen fuel along the Gulf of Mexico, reports News 18.

The navy statement said the warehouse was located along a coastal highway in the state of Tabasco while the ship was anchored in the port of Coatzacoalcos in neighboring Veracruz state.

16 fuel storage trucks found

It said it found 16 storage tanks for fuel in the warehouse, along with five trucks. Two other...

https://mfame.guru/21-crew-members-arrested-ship-seized-for-carrying-stolen-fuel/

Captain of Fire-Stricken Tanker Faces Pollution Charges

  • The captain of the VLCC that caught fire in the Indian Ocean earlier this month will face charges in Sri Lanka.
  • There is sufficient evidence to charge the captain under the country’s marine pollution act as well as the penal code for criminal evidence.
  • Sri Lanka will also seek $1.88 million in damages from the ship’s owners.

Sri Lanka to charge captain of fire-stricken tanker New Diamond, reports Ship&Bunker.

Compensation from VLCC owner

Sri Lanka will seek at least RS340m ($1.9m) from the owner...

https://mfame.guru/captain-of-fire-stricken-tanker-faces-pollution-charges/

Pharma Plant Leak Causes ‘Mediterranean Fever’ Outbreak in China

According to a CNN report, several thousand people in northwest China have tested positive for bacterial disease, authorities said on Tuesday, in an outbreak caused by a leak at a biopharmaceutical company last year.

Livestock Carried Disease Outbreak
  • The Health Commission of Lanzhou, the capital city of Gansu province, confirmed that 3,245 people had contracted the disease brucellosis, which is often caused by contact with livestock carrying the bacteria Brucella.
  • Another 1,401 people have...

https://mfame.guru/pharma-plant-leak-causes-mediterranean-fever-outbreak-in-china/

U.K.’s Largest Drug Seizure Worth £120m from Containership

  • More than a tonne of heroin with a street value of more than £120m was found hidden in bags of rice on a container ship.

  • The National Crime Agency seized 1,169kg (184st) of heroin and morphine derivatives from the vessel when it docked in Felixstowe in Suffolk.

Officers removed the drugs and returned the container before tracking it to the Netherlands and making arrests.

Class A drugs ‘worth £120m’ seized in Felixstowe, says a BBC report.

Largest drug seizure
  • The agency said it was one of...

https://mfame.guru/u-k-s-largest-drug-seizure-worth-120m-from-containership/

Crew Change Open Just for Sign-off

Thailand crew change is open for off-sign, but not for on-sign, says an article published in Maritime Bulletin.

Crew change policy

Off-Sign is ok

Thailand is open for off-sign for all nationalities, providing off-sign crew members are t-negative and leave the country in 24 hours. No prolonged stay beyond 24 hours is allowed. 

On-signers situation

On-signers are not allowed into the country and Off-signers can be replaced with Thai seamen only.

Ships calling at Thai ports

Ships may call Thai ports for...

https://mfame.guru/crew-change-open-just-for-sign-off/

How Maritime Fraud & Legal Loophole Fostered the Beirut Blast

The Beirut blast shook the maritime world like never before. The already pandemic hit the maritime industry is gasping to deal with maritime regulations and legal issues arising of the incident. Dr. Habib Al Mulla of the Baker McKenzie legal firm wrote to CNN about this maritime fraud.

Here’s how he analyzed it as published in an article in Lexology

Increase in Maritime Fraud Incidents

The horrific explosion that recently took place at the port of the city of Beirut is a tragedy for its people....

https://mfame.guru/how-maritime-fraud-legal-loophole-fostered-the-beirut-blast/

UN Biodiversity Report Shows How the World Fails Nature Targets

The science behind the climate crisis
Aerial view of the location where Shaheen???s house, together with those of another 9 families, used to be before the river erosion took them away.

In 2010, leaders from 196 countries gathered in Japan and agreed on a list of goals designed to save the Earth and target was 10 year plan to be completed in 2020, and now when the time has come the world has failed to achieve that target, reports CNN.

What was the target?

The Aichi Biodiversity Targets laid out a 10-year plan to conserve the...

https://mfame.guru/un-biodiversity-report-shows-how-the-world-fails-nature-targets/

Crew Birthday Bash Leads To the ‘Mauritius Oil Spill’ Reveals Investigation

  • A Japanese ship that ran aground on a coral reef off Mauritius may have changed course to get a mobile data signal for a birthday celebration on board, according to investigators from Panama, the country under whose flag the vessel was sailing.
  • The M.V. Wakashio crashed into the coral reef barrier on July 25 and leaked almost 1,000 tonnes of fuel oil into Mauritian waters.
  • The vessel’s captain was taken into custody on Aug. 18 for endangering safe navigation as Mauritian authorities said the...

https://mfame.guru/crew-birthday-bash-lead-to-the-mauritius-oil-spillreveals-investigation/

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