Piracy
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Piracy
Eight kidnapped Tommi Ritscher crew freed
Eight crewmemebers who were kidnapped by pirates from containership last month off Benin have been freed by the Nigerian Navy…
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Piracy
Eight kidnapped Tommi Ritscher crew freed
Eight crewmemebers who were kidnapped by pirates from containership last month off Benin have been freed by the Nigerian Navy…
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Piracy
Stolt product tanker attacked off Yemen
Stolt Tankers has detailed how its product tanker, the , was attacked by pirates 75 nautical miles off Yemen’s coast…
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Three pirate attacks in one day off West Africa
Piracy attacks continue to proliferate off West Africa with three incidents reported in just one day. The tanker Yuan Qiu…
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Two crew abducted from cargo ship off Equatorial Guinea
The 1993-built 8,900 dwt cargo ship was attacked by pirates off Malabo, Equatorial Guinea on Saturday and two crew members…
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10 crew kidnapped from product tanker off Nigeria
The Panamanian-flagged , a 6,152 dwt product tanker controlled by Piraeus-based Queensway Navigation, was attacked in Nigerian waters yesterday by…
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Europe
Crew from Tommi Ritscher citadel rescued, eight remain hostage
Nigerian special forces have rescued 11 crewmembers from the Portuguese-flagged containership , which was attacked by pirates off Benin on…
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Containers
Nigerian special forces deployed to free eight crew held hostage onboard boxship
Nigeria has dispatched a patrol boat with a detachment of special forces to try and resolve a hostage situation in…
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Asia
Abu Sayyaf team heads towards Malaysia on the hunt for kidnap targets
The International Maritime Bureau (IMB) Piracy Reporting Centre has been alerted by Malaysian intelligence that an Abu Sayyaf kidnap for…
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Europe
Seven crew kidnapped from MSC boxship in Gulf of Guinea
The 2005-built 957 teu feeder boxship was boarded by pirates in Gulf of Guinea on Sunday and seven of the…
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Asia
Crew thwarts pirate attack on Swiss bulker
A pirate attack on a supramax bulk carrier operated by Swiss owner SAM has been thwarted by the ship’s crew.…
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Europe
Minerva Marine tanker attacked by pirates off Benin
The 2006-built 51,000 dwt product tanker , owned by Greek owner Minerva Marine, was attacked by pirates off Cotonou, Benin…
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Piracy
Shots fired at boxship off Nigeria
Shots were fired at a boxship departing West Africa on Friday in the latest violent attack to hit merchant shipping…
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Piracy
Nine kidnapped in seventh attack off Cotonou in the space of just one month
Another ship has been attacked in West Africa with nine crew kidnapped. The , a tanker belonging to Greece’s Oceangold…
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Asia
Robbery attempts in the Singapore Strait escalate
Sunday saw two pirate incidents take place within an interval of an hour to a bulk carrier and a tanker…
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Piracy
BIMCO boss hits out at Nigerian piracy status quo
The departing CEO of international shipowning organisation BIMCO has hit out at Nigerian authorities’ complete failure to rein in the…
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Europe
19 crew abducted from Union Maritime tanker released, one dead
The crew abducted from Marshall Islands-flagged chemical tanker last month have been released, however one of the crew members died…
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Operations
World’s top managers provide insight into 2020 challenges
According to Rajesh Unni, the CEO of Synergy Marine Group, the art and the science of the shipmanager is essentially…
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Piracy
57 crew kidnapped off West Africa in just one month
A total of 57 crew were kidnapped last month in and around the Gulf of Guinea, a similar figure to…
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Piracy
Piracy attacks off Nigeria rise
Piracy attacks off West Africa over the past week have escalated, reaching extraordinarily dangerous proportions where bullets were fired at…
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