Panama seized a North Korean cargo ship it suspects was hiding missile equipment in a shipment of brown sugar from Cuba, after a standoff in which the ship’s captain tried to slit his own throat. The ship was stopped last week as it headed into the Panama Canal and authorities arrested the crew on Monday after finding undeclared missile-shaped
Read morePirates from Somalia struck again on Sunday by hijacking a Turkish-owned oil tanker ship off the western Africa coast. The Malta-flagged tanker vessel, MV Cotton, with its crew of 20 Indian seafarers, was attacked near Port Gentil in Gabon. An official of the Turkish Foreign Ministry confirmed the accident. According to the information 6
Read moreDeputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean visited USS Freedom, July 12, while the ship was moored at Changi Naval Base. Mr. Teo, a former Republic of Singapore Chief of Navy, visited the U.S. Navy’s first-of-class littoral combat ship as she prepares to participate in Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) Singapore next week –
Read moreWell-armed pirates are widening their area of operations and using new strategies in a “worrying surge” of attacks, kidnappings and armed robberies in West Africa’s oil-rich Gulf of Guinea, an international piracy monitoring agency said Monday. The London-based International Maritime Bureau published figures for the first six months of the year indicating that while
Read moreIndonesian Security Coordinating Board (Bakorkamla) collaborated with Popunas Kohanudnas. The collaboration was created for an examination of the Bakorkamla’s staff related to the protap and respond of the command centre. The visited to Popunas (Kohanudnas) on Wednesday, 10 July 2013 was lead by the Maritime Colonel Dodi Fernando ‘head of the operation strategy division’,
Read moreOne crewman is believed to have died after an Indian-owned tanker caught fire in Malaysian waters. There were a total of 23 mariners aboard the vessel at the time of the incident, while the ship was heading to Bangladesh. Flames erupted in the tanker’s engine room late Sunday, but have now been contained. A
Read moreTwo U.S. Navy ships patrolling in the Middle East moved closer to Egypt’s Red Sea coast in recent days, the top Marine Corps general said on Thursday, in what appeared to be a precautionary move after the military overthrow of President Mohamed Mursi. The United States often sends Navy vessels close to countries in
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