July 17th, 20190Ten Turkish sailors were taken hostage by armed pirates who attacked a Turkish-flagged ship off the coast of Nigeria, the vessel’s owner, Kadioglu Denizcilik, said yesterday. Another eight sailors were left safely aboard. The sailors onboard the were seized on Saturday evening in West African waters, an area that has become the...
June 10th, 20191Some of shipping’s top stakeholders met on Friday at the London headquarters of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to demand action to counter the dire piracy situation off the Gulf of Guinea, which is causing severe distress for seafarers who have to transit the region. The event, co-sponsored by BIMCO, IMCA, ICS, ITF...
May 7th, 20190Nigeria-based Tamrose Ventures, a logistics services provider in the oil and gas industry, has acquired a resale platform supply vessel from China's Fujian Mawei Shipbuilding. The vessel was originally ordered by Dubai-based owner Marine Assets Corporation in 2013, and it has been renamed TMC Evolution. The price of the deal was...
January 28th, 20190Three attacks on ships off West Africa have been reported by maritime security specialists Ambrey in the space of just 24 hours. The Liberia-flagged product tanker Levanto was fired at on January 24 while underway at 10.9 knots en route from Lagos to Calabar, Nigeria. The Unibros Shipping Corp-owned vessel deviated course, increased...
December 19th, 20180BW Offshore has signed an extension agreement with Nigerian Agip Exploration, a subsidiary of Eni, for FPSO . Last year, the FPSO was signed up to a long-term extension through to the end of March 2018 with a series of options available through to 2023. This latest option takes the contract through to June 30, 2019. The 1976-built...
November 1st, 20180Nigerian state-run Nigerian National Petroleum Commission (NNPC) has announced that subsidiary NIDAS Shipping Services will resume crude shipping services after seven years of suspended operations. The company said the re-entry of its shipping services subsidiary was in tandem with its ongoing efforts to rejuvenate some subsidiaries...
November 1st, 20180Details are emerging of further West African hijackings, this time further south than other recent incidents. The tanker Anuket Amber was bunkering LPG tanker on October 30 when pirates attacked both ships just off Pointe-Noire in the republic of Congo. While the BW ship was able to escape, the Anuket Amber was hijacked and its crew...
October 30th, 20180Over the weekend pirates boarded a Liberian flagged containership off the coast of Nigeria, seizing 11 crew including eight from Poland. The attackers struck the German-owned , bound for the Nigerian port of Onne, early on Saturday and abducted 11 of the crew. Nine others remained onboard and were unharmed. Kidnappings and piracy...
October 29th, 20180Twelve crewmembers kidnapped from a Swiss ship off Nigeria last month have been freed, Swiss judicial officials said on Sunday. Negotiations between the owner Massoel Shipping and the kidnappers of the bulk carrier led to the release of seven Filipinos, a Bosnian, a Croatian, a Romanian, a Slovenian and a Ukrainian, all of whom were...
October 24th, 20180Houston-based Pacific Drilling has been awarded a contract for drillship by Eni's Nigerian Agip Exploration for drilling offshore Nigeria. The $9m contract commences next month and is for one firm well with two one-well options. Paul Reese, CEO of Pacific Drilling, commented: “On the heels of our previous announcement of new...
