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...
May 2 (Reuters) – Three people were killed and more than two dozen injured on Sunday when a suspected smuggling boat broke apart off Cabrillo National Monument at California’s Point…
BEIJING, March 16 (Reuters) – China foiled criminals seeking to smuggle nearly 1 million tonnes of refined oil worth 5 billion yuan ($770 million), with officials seizing 11 ships and…
A smuggling ring used trucks to bring hundreds of millions of dollars worth of tobacco from the United States to Canada concealed in legitimate cross-border shipments of goods to evade duties and taxes, authorities said.
Truck drivers and the two alleged ringleaders were among the 13 charged in Quebec on Tuesday in connection with the tobacco-smuggling operation. The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) alleges that the group evaded CA$450 million (US$336 million) in duties and taxes.
“It’s the...
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Three customs officers lost their lives as their boat capsized on January 21, in waters off Hong Kong International Airport. Two crew members survived the incident, however the cause of the accident is not yet known.
The Fire Services Department informed that it sent 72 firefighters and rescuers to the are of the incident, after receiving a report. According to sources, the vessel hit an unknown object.
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The first group of firefighters arrived 29 minutes after...
https://safety4sea.com/three-dead-as-boat-capsizes-off-hong-kong-airport/
The ship vessel was reportedly smuggling 250,000 liters of diesel fuel to the United Arab Emirates.
The US Navy and maritime forces from 10 Indo-Pacific partner countries started the 18th iteration of Southeast Asia Cooperation and Training (SEACAT) in Singapore, August 19. The goal of the SEACAT exercise is to gather regional partner nations to engage in “real world, real time” training designed to enhance partner nation ability to communicate, coordinate and counter illegal smuggling and piracy.
The exercise focuses on realistic training scenarios wherein exercise participants will practice...
https://safety4sea.com/us-navy-conducts-exercise-to-tackle-smuggling-and-piracy/