Gunmen, who hijacked a fuel-laden tanker off Ivory Coast, have released the vessel today after stealing about $5 million of the ship’s cargo. Fortunately none of the 16 crewmembers aboard the Panama-flagged ITRI were injured in the attack. According to the tanker’s owner, Nigeria-based Brila Energy, the crew was locked in a dining room
Read moreGunmen attacked a barge belonging to an oil services company off the coast of Nigeria on Saturday, killing two Nigerian sailors and kidnapping four foreigners, officials said. The suspected sea pirates stormed the vessel in the Gulf of Guinea, an area that has seen a sharp spike in the number of reported marine attacks
Read moreDraft guidelines on the preservation and collection of evidence following an allegation of a serious crime having taken place on board a ship, or following a report of a missing person from a ship, and on pastoral and medical care of victims were approved by the Legal Committee of the International Maritime Organization (IMO),
Read moreThe maritime security of India got a further boost today with the induction of state-of-the-art new generation Naval Offshore Patrol Vessel (NOPV), INS “SARYU”, indigenously designed in-house and built by Goa Shipyard Limited. The Vessel was formally commissioned into the Indian Navy by Air Marshal P K Roy, AVSM VM VSM Commander-in-Chief, Andaman &
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