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)...
DUBAI, July 10 (Reuters) – An Iranian Revolutionary Guards Commander accused the U.S. Navy on Monday of defending fuel smuggling in the Gulf by trying to interfere when Iran intercepted a ship last week….
https://gcaptain.com/iran-accuses-u-s-navy-of-defending-fuel-smuggling-in-gulf-incident/
The massive quantity of illegal drugs with a street value of almost €3 million was extracted from beneath the ship’s hull with the assistance of a local diving business by Gibraltar Customs agents, as reported by Olive Press.
Cocaine smugglingThey discovered the two sizable bundles in the “sea chest” of the “Star Majesty” after learning about the attempted cocaine smuggling.
It is the second discovery of its kind in Gibraltar waters this year.
The crew was then...
https://mfame.guru/55-kilos-of-cocaine-were-found-stashed-sailing-through-gibraltar/
The massive quantity of illegal drugs with a street value of almost €3 million was extracted from beneath the ship’s hull with the assistance of a local diving business by Gibraltar Customs agents, as reported by Olive Press.
Cocaine smugglingThey discovered the two sizable bundles in the “sea chest” of the “Star Majesty” after learning about the attempted cocaine smuggling.
It is the second discovery of its kind in Gibraltar waters this year.
The crew was then...
https://mfame.guru/55-kilos-of-cocaine-were-found-stashed-sailing-through-gibraltar/
In the seaports of Rotterdam and Antwerp, the Netherlands, Belgium, and five major global shipping companies are collaborating to fight organised crime. At a symposium in Antwerp today with the topic “Working together on a secure and trustworthy port,” this was decided. The collaborative effort will include staff screening, the adoption of new international security standards, the use of smart containers that will sound an alarm when tampered with, and the exchange of...
https://mfame.guru/maritime-companies-joint-efforts-to-fight-against-drug-smuggling/
The U.S. Central Command is reporting yet another significant seizure of weapons in the Gulf of Oman along a route known for weapons trafficking from Iran to Yemen. The latest…
https://gcaptain.com/another-major-weapons-seizure-in-gulf-of-oman/
DUBAI, Sept 10 (Reuters) – Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards have seized a foreign vessel in the Gulf for allegedly smuggling 757,000 litres of diesel out of the country, the Iranian state news…
https://gcaptain.com/iran-guards-seize-foreign-ship-in-gulf-for-smuggling-diesel/
Russia may be smuggling stolen grain out of Ukraine through ship-to-ship transfers, according to Israeli artificial intelligence and data analytics company Windward.
Windward said in a report released Wednesday that its maritime AI technology identified a “worrisome new phenomenon: alleged Russian grain laundering.”
The report contains information about five vessels that allegedly engaged in “dark activities” and ship-to-ship operations in the Kerch Strait in June “as part of what appears to be...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/russian-vessels-allegedly-grain-laundering-near-war-zone
Local union freight workers were among those New Jersey-based Staxxon approached for initial feedback on its shipping containers that fold and bundle for space-saving storage.
After examining the containers, the workers offered an unexpected response.
“They said all of our open profiles … needed to be sealed off so people couldn’t put drugs inside them and smuggle them in,” George Kochanowski, founder and CEO of Staxxon, told FreightWaves.
The safety beams and the headers and sills that frame the...
Truck drivers transported loads of contraband tobacco from North Carolina to Mohawk territory in New York and returned with bags of cash and counterfeit cigarettes as part of a U.S.-Canada smuggling ring that evaded nearly $700 million in taxes, according to federal prosecutors.
It lasted for nine years and the scale was staggering: 6.7 million pounds of tobacco smuggled and around $686 million in lost tax revenue for the Canadian government — all tied to a single farmer who admitted to serving...