by admin | Jul 14, 2016 | Uncategorized
The M/V Ana Cecilia that was best known for making a landmark trip to Cuba in 2012, delivering humanitarian goods for the first time in 50 years, and then for being seized by US custom and border control agents for smuggling cocaine in 2015, has been sunk about a mile...
by admin | Apr 25, 2016 | Uncategorized
The roll-on, roll-off shipping market is in a relatively upbeat mood after emerging surprisingly unscathed from a year of tough economic and geopolitical challenges. The outlook for pure car carriers, however, is looking less rosy against a backdrop of rising supply...
by admin | Feb 17, 2016 | Uncategorized
A U.N. sanctioned North Korean shipping company continues to evade international sanctions. Ocean Maritime Management Company Limited (OMM) continues to operate by way of foreign flagged vessels, name and company name re-registrations and other means of deceptive...
by admin | Feb 3, 2016 | Uncategorized
The Panama-flagged Turkish container ship, Whiskey Trio, has been detained and deemed unseaworthy after a report was filed by a sick crew member who was denied access to a medical professional. Upon inspection, Swedish authorities discovered explosives, rockets and...
by admin | Jan 11, 2016 | Uncategorized
After an inspection conducted in association with the Servicio de Administración Tributaria (SAT) of Mexico in Manzanillo, 173 kilos of cocaine were found on board inside 3 black suitcases. The vessel had last called the port of Buenaventura, Colombia where the drugs...
by admin | Nov 19, 2015 | Uncategorized
United States federal investigators have called off the search for the M/V El Faro voyage data recorder. The U.S. flagged vessel sunk along with all 33 members of its crew in early October 2015 after experiencing engine failure on there way from Jacksonville, FL to...
