Month: April 2019
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Maritime Workers Strike in Bangladesh
April 16: Water transport workers started a nationwide indefinite strike early today to press home their 11-point demand, causing huge sufferings to passengers. The workers under the banner of Bangladesh […]
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$438m Worth of Methamphetamine Seized at Port Botany, Australia
April 07: Australian Border Force agents have found almost $500 million worth of methamphetamine stuffed inside refrigerators in a shipping container from Singapore bound for Sydney’s west. Authorities uncovered 585kg […]
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USCG Offloads 14,000 lbs of Marijuana and 3,660 lbs of Cocaine at Port Everglade
April 18: The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Bear (WMEC-901) is scheduled to offload approximately 14,000 pounds of marijuana worth an estimated $12.5 million wholesale and 3,660 pounds of […]
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Montenegrin Authorities Seize Narcotics on Navy Training Ship
April 19: Montenegrin military police have seized around 50 kilograms of drugs on board a naval training ship, hours before it was scheduled to take students on a training cruise, […]
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Seafarers in Harwich, England To Protest Tomorrow Over Pay
April 23: Trinity House seafarers, engaged in their first pay dispute in more than 500 years, will be holding a protest in Harwich, Essex, at 13.00 tomorrow (Wednesday 24 April). […]
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Hundreds Of Dockworkers Protest Against Driverless Trucks At Port Of LA
April 16: Hundreds of union dockworkers with the Port of Los Angeles turned out for a protest Tuesday morning against the use of automated trucks at one of its terminals. […]
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Royal Navy Ships Practise Minehunting Amid ‘Present’ Threat In Gulf
April 17: Sailors from the Royal Navy have been practising their minehunting capabilities along with their American and French counterparts off the coast of Bahrain. Exercise Artemis Trident has been taking […]
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Spain Allows NGOs to Sail With Aid Supplies for Migrants
April 17: Spain has reluctantly allowed humanitarian aid vessels to depart for the Greek islands where they want to deliver aid supplies to migrant camps, Spanish aid groups said Wednesday. […]
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Map: Visualizing 40 Years of Nautical Piracy
February 08: A web map visualization of piracy incidents from 1978 to October 2018 has been made, both as an aggregation layer of 50,000 square kilometre hexagonal cells at broad […]
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11 Unauthorized Persons Board Tanker at Visakhapatnam Anchorage
April 13: At 10:06 UTC five boats with eleven persons approached a tanker during anchoring operations in Visakhapatnam, India. Upon anchoring, the boats came alongside, hooked on ropes to the […]
