Sydney. A former sailor was jailed on Monday for more than three years after overpowering a guard and stealing a cache of weapons from an Australian navy vessel. Matthew Evans, 26, was sentenced in the Darwin Supreme Court after donning camouflage clothing and a balaclava to raid his old ship, HMAS Bathurst, in the…
Eleven Indonesian pirates, who were arrested after hijacking the Malaysian vessel Zafirah in November 2012, will be extradited to Indonesia today via Tan Son Nhat airport in Ho Chi Minh City. Yesterday Colonel Cao Xuan Trang, deputy commander of the Border Guard of the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau, had a meeting with…
Singapore. It’s 12 p.m. on Friday, and a truck is approaching the gateway of Pasir Panjang cargo terminal in Singapore. The driver registers his fingerprint, while the people from the control room make sure everything is checked out, and after 25 seconds he receives clearance without the use of any paper document. Welcome to…
* Shipping in oil-rich Gulf of Guinea largely unprotected * Somali hijackings drops as counter-piracy stepped up (Reuters) – Armed hijackers pose a growing threat off Nigeria’s oil-rich coast, where commercial ships do not enjoy the protection of naval security that has dramatically reduced Somali piracy on the other side of Africa. The Gulf…