A group of Nigerian stowaways managed to survive a perilous 14-day journey across the Atlantic on a cargo ship’s rudder by drinking the ocean water crashing below them, a new report… Read More
Intercepted Vessel: Private Security Contractors Thwart Attempt to Smuggle 800,000 Litres of Stolen Crude Oil
In a significant breakthrough in the battle against crude oil theft, private sec… Read More
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — 3 stowaways had been discovered on a ship’s rudder in the Canary Islands just after an 11-working day ocean voyage from Nigeria, Spain’s maritime re… Read More
An international oil tanker and its crew remain in the custody of the Nigerian authorities, after they were arrested more than three months ago in unclear circumstances. Nigeria is reported… Read More
The Nigerian Navy appear to be in double-speak with the status of its encounter with Marshall Islands-flagged very large crude carrier Heroic Idun and its crew, said to be on its way to Nig… Read More
The Spanish Coast Guard rescued three refugees who had been at the helm of a boat from Nigeria to the Canary Islands for eleven days. The three men can be seen at the helm of the oil and… Read More
19 people were kidnapped from the ship on December 3 after the ship was taken over by pirates. Out of them, 18 were Indians.
“Nigerian Navy @NigerianNavy and Shipping Company have conf… Read More
This year, the long wait for Godot will come to an end. The second bridge over the River Niger will be commissioned, and put to use. And what a dream come true it would be.
Last December, a… Read More
The Nigerian-flagged vessel, MV CHARIS, which was attacked by unknown assailants on May 5 and subsequently rescued by the Spanish Navy and handed over to Equatorial Guinea, has been released… Read More
Twenty Indian national seafarers were kidnapped from a Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker vessel MT Duke off Lome, Togo.
The vessel was attacked and boarded by six pirates some 115 nautical… Read More
Members of the Ship Owners Association of Nigeria (SOAN) have said the federal government will be losing over $100 million due to a recent award of coastal and bunkering of vessel service co… Read More
Armed men killed one sailor and abducted 15 from a Turkish cargo ship off the coast of Nigeria, Turkey’s Anadolu news agency reported Sunday.
That left three crew members to sail the L… Read More
The Nigerian Navy on Wednesday deployed six warships and 65 gunboats in a joint multinational maritime exercise comprising 16 foreign Navies from Europe, America and Africa.
The participa… Read More
A group of eight pirates attacked the Malta-flagged tanker MT Puli and kidnapped the vessel’s crew members some 118 nautical miles off Port Harcourt, Nigeria, OPS Clearwater confirmed… Read More
The trading arm of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Duke Oil, is leaving London to set up in Dubai to be closer to the Asian market, which is fast becoming the main buyer… Read More
Maritime media has confirmed that suspected pirates have caught six crew members from a ship off coast of southern Nigeria.
Pirates kidnapped six crew members from a German-owned container s… Read More
The Federal Government may have shelved its promise of floating some high-tech machinery meant to combat maritime crime in the nation’s troubled waters.Under the initial target, the fa… Read More