Pirates that kidnapped 6 foreign seamen from an oil servicing ship off the Nigerian coast on February 17, 2013 are demanding 200 million naira (US$1.3 million) for their freedom, reported Nigerian police officials on Tuesday. Nigerian gunmen stormed the vessel Armada Tuah 40 n.m. off the coast of oil-producing Bayelsa state and kidnapped 1…
Russian-flagged oil tanker vessel Marine Alliance, 3080 GT, built in 1994 with nearly 800 tons of fuel oil carrying onboard became stranded in the Sea of Japan. Marine Alliance suffered an engine failure which caused the accident. “The oil tanker ship Marine Alliance that was sailing to port of Nakhodka, has been disabled due…
China has officially rejected the Philippines’ effort to seek international arbitration over conflicting claims to territory in the South China Sea. The Chinese Foreign Ministry noted that the proposal was not only historically incorrect, it was also not legal. They also claimed that there were numerous offensive accusations against China in the proposal. However,…
Activist group Sea Shepherd has alleged that a ship from Japan’s whaling fleet has deliberately collided with two of its vessels today in Antarctic waters. On the other side, Japan’s Fisheries Agency claimed that the anti-whalers were responsible for the collisions. Sea Shepherd founder, Paul Watson, detailed that as he was aboard the SSS…