J. J. Ugland has confirmed that the captain and eight other crewmembers of one of its cargo vessels who had been abducted by pirates have been released to Nigerian ..
Tag: piracy
Long time readers of this website’s predecessor magazine Fishing Boat World may recall a series of articles in its August and September 2000 issues. They were ..
I never sailed in the West African trades, but I know several people who looked back with the fondest memories of voyages to that part of the world, with ships being ..
Nineteen crewmembers of a commercial oil tanker were kidnapped by armed men who had boarded their vessel in the waters off Nigeria on Tuesday, December 3. Navios Tankers ..
Singapore is often seen as a bastion of stability in Southeast Asia, but it faces a number of maritime security threats.
In early January, Indonesian finance minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati inaugurated the new Tawiri Ambon naval base near Ambon Bay with direct access to the Banda Sea.
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Togolese President Faure Gnassingbe has stated that the continuing incidents of piracy in the Gulf of Guinea are the result of West African countries’ failure to ..
Dredging is a strange business. Dredgers aren’t seen as things of beauty and all the action takes place underwater so there’s not much to see. On harbour beds ..
The International Maritime Bureau’s (IMB) Annual Report on Piracy and Armed Robbery Against Ships for 2018 showed an overall rise in worldwide piratical attacks upon ..
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