Gulf of Guinea Security

Experts work to beef up security in the GoG, through which an estimated 40% of Europe’s oil imports and 29% of U.S.-bound petroleum products pass

Pirates Attack Tanker and Kidnap 5 Crew

Medallion Marine have become the latest target of pirates in Nigeria, having had a tanker looted and five Indian crew members taken hostage on Monday.

Sanctions Threaten Safety

Western sanctions imposed over the past months against Iran's shipping industry will seriously affect international maritime and environmental safety, a senior Iranian official said. Companies are cutting ties with Iran's vital ...

Burmese sailors set adrift in lifeboat

Marine rescuers in southern Vietnam on Thursday rescued five Burmese and four Indonesian sailors who had been attacked four days earlier by Indonesian pirates and left to drift at sea ...

Gas tanker attempts first winter Arctic crossing

A large tanker carrying liquified natural gas (LNG) is set to become the first ship of its type to sail across the Arctic. The carrier, Ob River, left Norway in November ...

Cyclone Nilam: Missing Sailors

Rescue operations are under way in India's southern city of Chennai to find five sailors missing from an oil tanker that ran aground in a cyclone. Coast guard helicopters and boats ...

Double Tanker Hijacking

Two tankers have been hijacked in the Gulf of Guinea in the past four days as piracy off the West African coast continues to escalate. On Saturday the 73,400-dwt Orfeas (built ...

Moscow Confirms Kidnapping

Russia's Foreign Ministry has confirmed that 23 Russian citizens were on board the Energy Centurion, the Greek owned oil tanker hijacked off the coast of Togo Russia confirms 23 citizens on board ...

Cargoes to Resume

India, the third-biggest buyer of Iranian oil, will offer state-backed insurance to tankers, helping the nation’s biggest sea carrier to resume cargoes from the Persian Gulf nation hit by international ...

Attack on Oil Tanker

Piracy off Nigeria's oil-rich delta has escalated from low-level armed robberies to hijackings and cargo thefts, in the latest incident pirates have attacked an unidentified oil tanker. Pirates attack oil tanker Lagos ...

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