Istanbul-based Beks Shipmanagement has snapped up its second cape in the space of one month. Broking reports indicate that the fast-growing owner has tabled around $32.5m for the nine-year-old cape , sold by JP Morgan’s Global Maritime Investment Fund. The Turkish player is one of many buyers...
Indian, Turkish, Azerbaijaniani and Bangladeshi seafarers are in the third week of a hunger strike in the port of Shuaiba, Kuwait. The abandoned crew of the bulk carrier Ula have been on hunger strike since 7 January in a desperate effort to get off the ship and recover more than $400,000 USD in wages owed to them, says an article published in PR Newswire.
Seafarers Lives Remains At RiskSix of the crew of have already been hospitalised to stabilise their blood pressure and sugar levels, before...
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Ten Turkish sailors, who had been kidnapped off Nigeria in mid-July, were released on August 9.
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Armed sea pirates capture crew members on Turkey-registered cargo ship during an attack in the Gulf of Guinea and kidnap 10, reports Daily Sabah.
What happened?Turkish cargo ship was attacked by pirates off the coast of Nigeria on early Tuesday with 10 sailors. All of them were Turkish nationals and were taken hostage for ransom.
According to a statement from the ship operator Kadıoğlu Maritime, the ship named “Paksoy-1” was sailing without freight from Cameroon’s port city of Douala to Abidjan...
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