Tag: maritime crime

According to European Commission, new rules to protect the environment through criminal law will enter into force on May 20. 

Two ship engineers pleaded guilty on May 7, to charges related to concealing pollution and falsifying records onboard an oil tanker near a petroleum terminal in Sewaren, New Jersey.

West P&I Club's Correspondent, A&A Multiprime Corp, has released its 2024 Colombia Drug Smuggling Report, offering a thorough analysis of the shifting challenges encountered by authorities and the maritime industry in their efforts to combat narcotics trafficking.

The IMO Legal Committee meets in person for its 111th session (LEG 111) from 22 to 26 April 2024, where various legal matters will be discussed. 

India has submitted three papers to the International Maritime Organization (IMO), in view of the upcoming 111th Session of the Legal Committee (LEG), asking the Organization to address current issues regarding the security and contracting terms of seafarers. 

The Information Fusion Centre (IFC) has released its annual report in which it highlights that a total of 117 theft, robbery and piracy at sea (TRAPS) incidents in the IFC’s Area of Interest (AOI) were recorded in 2023.

On Saturday February 10, three crew members were rescued by the Hellenic Coast Guard after reportedly being abducted onboard a tanker near the island of Chios. 

On 24 January, the Commission, together with the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU, launched the European Ports Alliance and its Public-Private Partnership to step up the fight against drug trafficking and organised crime in EU ports.

A shipmaster was injured in a sea robbery incident on a Marshall Islands-flagged bulk carrier off Singapore's Strait of Malacca, according to the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA).

Information Fusion Centre (IFC) issued its latest infographic, providing a quarterly summary of boarding and attempted boarding incidents in the Singapore Strait as at 1 October 2023.