Tag: bulk carrier

  • Likely Attempted Robbery at Puerto Bolivar Anchorage, Colombia

    April 25: At approx. 03:40 UTC, two persons in a small boat approached and boarded an anchored bulk carrier at Puerto Bolivar Anchorage in Colombia (posn: 12:17.9N – 072:01.2W.) Alert […]

  • Theft Aboard Bulk Carrier at Callao Anchorage, Peru

    April 26: 0700 UTC: Posn: 12:01S – 077:13W, Callao Anchorage, Peru. Unnoticed, robbers boarded an anchored bulk carrier and escaped with ship’s stores. The theft was noticed by the duty […]

  • Theft Aboard Berthed Bulk Carrier in Casablanca

    April 01: At approx. 0600 UTC, duty officer onboard a berthed bulk carrier heard noises from the boat deck while vessel was at Berth T36, Casablanca Port in Morocco. As […]

  • Attempted Robbery Aboard Anchored Bulk Carrier off Macapa, Brazil

    March 10 2019: 0430 UTC: Posn: 00:03.5N – 050:57.8W, Macapa Anchorage, Brazil: Two robbers armed with knives boarded an anchored bulk carrier by using a rope with a hook. Duty AB […]

  • EU NAVFOR notes attack

    Full report on last week’s incident. Pirate attack averted off the east coast of Somalia On the 16th October 2018, the MV KSL Sydney, a Hong Kong flagged Bulk Carrier, […]

  • Tanker explosion concerns

    30 crew remain missing. Burning tanker off Chinese coast ‘in danger of exploding’ There are fears of an environmental disaster in the East China Sea as a tanker continues to […]

  • Pirates board bulker

    India, China navies stop suspected Somali pirate attack on merchant vessel By Aditya Kalra A Chinese navy ship supported by an Indian navy helicopter thwarted an attack by suspected Somali […]