The Coast Guard has suspended their search for two missing crew members who reportedly fell overboard off the M/V HANJIN PRETORIA in the North Pacific on a voyage from Long Beach, CA to Asia.
This comes to us from the Bay Area magazine East Bay Express. Interesting article that discusses the human impact of the Cosco Busan incident, and the effect on key crew members from the ship who were sequestered in San Francisco for over a year in an exotic mix of legal limbo. It is an interesting [...]
It looks like the McArthur, the 183ft ex-NOAA oceanographic research ship that Blackwater bought and converted for use as a maritime security platform is no longer offering services in the anti-piracy effort. Life on board the McArthur was apparently not so good. Blackwater, now re-named Xe, now has three separate harassment claims from crewmembers who [...]
A very good piece of news indeed. Pirates aboard the captured German ship M/V Hansa Stavanger with 24 hostages on board failed to locate their fellow pirates aboard the lifeboat with Capt. Phillips from the Maersk Alabama. The New York Times reports: The pirates had hoped to use the hijacked 20,000-tonne container vessel, Hansa Stavanger, [...]
UPDATE V: Maersk Alabama attacked by pirates Maersk Alabama Situation: 1700 EDT Update http://www.maersklinelimited.com We want to respond to inquiries with the most recent information in a consistent manner. First of all, we would like to extend to the families of the crew and the captain of the Maersk Alabama our thoughts and prayers. As [...]
In a relatively lightly published and un-noticed event, the U.S. flagged cargo ship M/V SAGAMORE was attacked and robbed on Aug. 8th by two men with AK-47s near the al-Basrah Oil Terminal, which lies about 19 miles from the Iraqi port of Umm Qasr. The SAGAMORE is operated by Sealift Inc., a privately held company [...]
The appearance of the small foreign freighter loaded with over 490 Tamil refugees off the shores of the U.S. and Canadian border in the Pacific Northwest posed a fairly significant challenge to the Canadian Maritime Forces this week. It became a particular challenge for Canada vice the U.S. because the vessel was requesting asylum in [...]
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