Before Sunday’s boarding of a merchant ship by Russian forces, at least six civilian cargo ships appeared to have disregarded Russia’s warnings. One of the ships had entered the Danube River, while the other five looked to have anchored in the Black Sea near the river’s mouth. These vessels had...
Russia continues to send crude oil tankers to China via the Arctic. During the past month six vessels have departed northern Russian ports, heading to China via Arctic ice. Two crude oil tankers had begun a Northern Sea Route (NSR) journey in mid-July, and four more oil tankers have started their...
West P&I’s local correspondent in Myanmar, Protection and Indemnity Services Asia Ltd, has provided an update on Yangon Port. Yangon Port is strategically located on the Yangon River, about 17nm inland from Elephant Point at the Gulf of Martaban. Recent expansion at Yangon Port has extended the...
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Three bulk carriers were robbed in the Singapore Strait over two days last week, according to a Singapore-based regional maritime security centre ISC. The “petty crime” incidents occurred on August 8th and 9th happened when the ships were in the Phillip Channel, the IFC said. One of the ships was...
The Managers of American Club have announced a new addition to the American Club’s catalogue of e-learning modules – entitled Twin Fall Lifeboat. It has been released in English, new and traditional Mandarin, in collaboration with Idess IT which provided the technology supporting the module’s...
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Ongoing water problems in the Panama Canal have now seen the canal authority AMP temporarily limit the number of new reserved passage slots, in an attempt to ease a bottleneck of ships that were waiting to transit without reservations, the AMP said last Thursday August 10th. A queue of commercial...
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Netherlands prosecutors have confirmed last month’s discovery on an unnamed container ship of the largest-ever individual seizure of cocaine to be smuggled through the port of Rotterdam. The prosecutors said that the drugs were discovered during a sweep of containers; drug-detecting dogs targeted a...
The Romanian Navy has deployed a ship and a helicopter to scout for stray mines on the country’s Black Sea coast, after a pier in the seaside resort of Costinesti was damaged in an explosion. Romania is a member of both the EU and NATO. It also shares a 400 mile border with Ukraine, of…
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Malaysia has paused the import of all live cattle and buffalo from Australia. It has expressed concern about lumpy skin disease (LSD). In July Indonesia halted live cattle imports from four locations in Australia after 13 cattle were found to have the disease. Australia responded last month that...
Tensions in the Black Sea ratcheted up another notch at the weekend after a Russian warship on Sunday August 13th fired warning shots at Turkish general cargo ship Sukru Okan (IMO 8311560) in international waters in the southwestern Black Sea as it made its way northwards. It was the first time...