The UK’s leading maritime intelligence provider, Dryad Maritime have today issued their latest report ‘Special Advisory, The West Africa Problem; Mission Not Impossible’, which focuses on the rapidly evolving nature of maritime crime in the Gulf of Guinea. The report provides a detailed insight into the main types of criminal activity in the area…
Ghana’s navy detained suspected pirate ship and arrested crew members on suspicion in the hijacking of an oil products tanker off Gabon 30 days ago. It is disturbing that pirate attacks in West Africa’s Gulf of Guinea become more and more frequent destroying the shipping business in the region. According to experts pirate gangs…
The fire-fighting teams aboard the Maersk Kampala have succeeded in putting out the fire aboard the container ship. Some smoke continues to come from some of the containers that had fire, but will stop eventually with continued spraying by the tugs and flooding by the fire-fighting teams. Operational planning is now the priority, including port…
Manila, Sept. 4 (CNA) Three crewmembers of a Taiwanese fishing boat that was strafed by a Philippine patrol vessel in May have been summoned by prosecutors to give eyewitness testimony in the case, according to the Philippines’ National Bureau of Investigation. Under Philippine law, the three crewmembers — Taiwanese Hung Yu-chih and Hung Chieh-shang and…