Tag: ship detentions

More ships banned from Europe

Court orders cargo ship be held

More Indian ships flout international safety standards

Malaysia Gets Tough on Ships in Prohibited Anchorages

Twelve foreign flagged ship under detention in the UK during May 2012

The Paris MoU Secretariat has published new monthly detention lists on the web site. Detention information is available in EXCEL and PDF format, including the number of detentions in the past 36 months.

M/V FIONA was banned by Italy after failing to call at an agreed repair yard

MT Vanessa earlier claimed to be carrying 8.5 million barrels of stolen crude oil has no crude The seized MT Vanessa earlier claimed to be carrying 8.5 million barrels of stolen crude oil has no crude on board, it emerged yesterday.The Defence Headquarters (DHq) has rolled out new directives for owners of boats and barges operating in the Niger Delta.The Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), Vice Admiral Ola Ibrahim, who appeared yesterday at the House Joint Committee investigating the upsurge in illegal bunkering, debunked reports on the seized ship.Chairman of the Committee Muraina Ajibola said the seized ship contained 8.5million barrels of crude oil.The Committee subsequently constituted a sub-committee to find out the veracity of that claim.In addition, the Navy was directed to hand over the ship to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for safekeeping."We don't want to hear that the content of the ship has disappeared," Ajibola said.Contrary to the claims of the Committee, the CNS said there was no crude oil on board the ship.He also disputed claims about the ship, saying it is Belgian and not French.Ibrahim blamed the boom in bunkering on insiders who worked in oil companies, lack of information sharing among security ...

Agents are currently investigating allegations of stowaways A cargo ship believed to be carrying stowaways was seized at a New Jersey port on Wednesday after it arrived in the United States following stops in India and Egypt to pick up freight, the U.S. Coast Guard said.Agents said they heard what sounded like people in a container buried beneath others in the ship's hold, Coast Guard spokesman Charles Rowe said.The container had not been opened hours after the ship was stopped and was being moved by crane to a dock so it could be checked, he said.The ship's manifest said the container was loaded onto the vessel on June 7 in India and was carrying machine parts.At least seven ambulances waited outside Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal, where dozens of containers were moved to the dock for inspection. Authorities knocked on the outside of the red, blue or gray containers, listening for noises, and opened and searched them.The vessel was identified as the Ville D'Aquarius, according to Anthony Bucci, a spokesman for the U.S. Customs & Border Protection."Agents are currently investigating allegations of stowaways," Bucci said in a statement.Rowe said authorities determined the container could not be opened in the ship's hold, ...

Nigerian Navy arrests MT St Vanessa crew for oil theft The Nigerian Navy has confirmed the arrest of a Belgian ship, MT St Vanessa and her 15 member crew for alleged oil theft in Bayelsa.The navy said the ship was arrested off the Brass/Akassa coast in Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa.Parading the crew members before journalists in Yenagoa, the Flag Officer, Central Naval Command, Rear Admiral Johnson Olutoyin, said the vessel had 15 crew members on board.Rear Admiral Olutoyin said the crew comprising six Romanians and nine Philippines, was intercepted on Tuesday by men of NNS Zaria (a naval ship) stationed at Brass.He said between June 5 and June 18, the command's Regional Maritime Domain Awareness Centres (RMAC) at the coastline, spotted the vessel loitering aimlessly off the Akassa/Brass area, notorious for illegal bunkering and crude oil theft."The MT St Vanessa, was reported to have departed Lome Port in June 5 and arrived at Akassa area on June 6 without any authority from Nigerian Ports Authority, NIMASA or the Nigerian Navy, to enable it operate on the Nigerian territorial waters."Olutoyin said that "for about 10 days, the vessel kept moving between a location of 100 nautical miles off Brass/Akassa ...