EMEA
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Cocaine Worth £20m Seized From Yacht Off Welsh Coast
August 28: Cocaine with a street value of £20m has been seized and six people arrested after a sailing yacht was intercepted off the coast of Wales. National Crime Agency (NCA) officers […]
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Police in Guinea-Bissau Seize 1.8 Tonnes of Cocaine in Caio, Canchungo
September 02: Police seized over 1.8 tonnes of cocaine in Caio and Canchungo in what was reportedly the largest seizure in the country. The drugs, hidden in sacks of flour, […]
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Shipping Companies Warned As South Africa Bans Stowaway Landings
August 29: With immediate effect, no stowaway will be permitted to be landed in South Africa. The change in policy means that any person declared as a stowaway in a […]
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Frontline Has Scaled Cack Strait of Hormuz Shipping Following June Attack
August 28: Oil tanker firm Frontline (FRO.OL) has scaled back the number of vessels it sends through the Strait of Hormuz after the attack in June on its Front Altair […]
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Pentagon Launches Maritime Security Effort Amid De-Escalation with Iran
August 29: Defense Secretary Mark Esper told reporters Aug. 28 he’s not ready to say that recent US-Iran tensions have subsided, but that the Pentagon is holding out hope for […]
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U.S. Imposes Sanctions on Wandering Iranian Oil Tanker
August 30: The Treasury Department on Friday imposed sanctions on an Iranian oil tanker at the center of a power struggle between the United States and Iran, a move that […]
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Iran Now Using Warships to Escort Their Commercial Ships
August 26: Iran just deployed its most advanced warship — a missile-equipped naval destroyer — to the Gulf of Aden on Monday to protect its ships. The destroyer Sahand, equipped […]
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British Navy Says 3rd Warship Sailing to Persian Gulf
August 24: Britain says a third Royal Navy vessel is heading to the Persian Gulf to protect merchant shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. The navy says the air-defence destroyer Defender, […]
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Qatar To Build New Port In Somalia’s Hobyo, Near Bab-el-Mandeb Strait
August 20: Qatar plans to build a new seaport at Somalia’s Hobyo, a potentially strategic investment in an area of East Africa fiercely contested by Gulf rivals. Hobyo, in the central region […]
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Customs Officials Seize Three Tonnes of Cocaine and Arrest 6 in Rotterdam
August 23: Customs officials based in Rotterdam’s port have seized two consignments of cocaine this week, totalling almost three tonnes, the public prosecution department said in a statement. The first […]
