HNLMS Groningen Archives - Baird Maritime

October 26, 2020

COLUMN | Maritime forces respond to surge in drug trafficking by sea [Naval Gazing]

Written by Trevor Hollingsbee on October 26, 2020. Posted in Commercial Mariner - Featured, Commercial Mariner - Maritime Security, Naval, Naval auxiliary/support vessels, Non-Naval (Maritime Security), Ships (Naval), Work Boat World Features.

Intelligence reports indicate that the Covid-19 pandemic is having a profound effect upon the international trade in illegal narcotics. The radical reduction in airline ..

December 19, 2019

Dutch warship seizes boat carrying over 1,400 kilograms of cocaine in Caribbean

Written by Baird Maritime on December 19, 2019. Posted in Non-Naval (Maritime Security), Ships (Naval).

The crew of a Royal Netherlands Navy ship boarded and seized a vessel carrying a significant quantity of drugs in Caribbean waters earlier this month. On December 2, the ..

October 5, 2020

Royal Navy task group seizes £160 million in drugs in Caribbean

Written by Baird Maritime on October 5, 2020. Posted in Naval auxiliary/support vessels, Ships (Naval).

A Royal Navy task group has prevented drugs worth more than £160 million (US$207 million) from potentially reaching the UK following two recent successful operations in ..

September 21, 2020

Dutch warship seizes 455 kilograms of cocaine off Aruba

Written by Baird Maritime on September 21, 2020. Posted in Ships (Naval).

Last week, the Royal Netherlands Navy patrol vessel HNLMS Groningen forced a go-fast boat to stop west of the island of Aruba after it was spotted along a well-known ..