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 moreA couple of months later, on 23-29 September, the second vessel in the Triple-E series which is to count a total of 20 ships, will be coming to Copenhagen. To celebrate this event, Maersk will offer the public a view of the large, new, and innovative container ship and at the same time opens
Read morePanama 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’,
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