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Maritime Daily News
Somali Pirates Free Taiwanese Ship
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Somali pirates on freed a Taiwanese vessel held since May, following the release a day earlier of two South Korean ships that were then sailed to Yemen under U.S. Navy escort. Andrew Mwangura, head of the East African Seafarers' Assistance Program, said the Taiwanese ship and its 12 crew, eight Kenyan and four Taiwanese, were freed from a pirate-held port north of Mogadishu. The United States Navy's Fifth Fleet, based in Bahrain, confirmed the release, and said it was providing unspecified assistance to the ship. The Taiwanese vessel went free as five U.S. warships were escorting two South Korean vessels to Yemen, after their release on Sunday after being held for five months. The two South Korean boats are registered in Tanzania's Zanzibar islands.. It said all 24 crew -- 10 Chinese, four South Koreans, four Indonesians, three Indians and three Vietnamese -- were safe. Gunmen attacked the vessels, the Mavuno 1 and Mavuno 2, off the Somali coast on May 15 as they were traveling to Yemen. Somali pirates are still holding two other craft: a Japanese-owned, Panama-flagged Golden Nori chemical tanker they seized last week and the Al Marjan cargo ship registered in Comoros. The U.S. Navy said it was monitoring those ships. Source: Reuters
http://www.marinelink.com/Story/ShowSto
IMO Bravery Award Presented to Searose G Seafarers
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
The inaugural IMO Award for Exceptional Bravery at Sea has been presented to two seafarers who risked their lives to save others in a dramatic rescue operation in gale-force winds. Second Officer Mustafa Topiwala of the 83,155 dwt Bahamas-registered oil/bulk ore carrier Searose G and Captain Zvonimir Ostric (who was on the vessel as onboard trainer at the time of the incident) were selected to receive the inaugural 2007 IMO Award for Exceptional Bravery at Sea, in recognition of their part in the rescue of survivors from the sunken vessel Teklivka, in the eastern Mediterranean, in March 2006. They were nominated by the Bahamas and by the International Federation of Shipmasters' Associations (IFSMA).
Presenting the award, during a special ceremony in London held during the Organization's 25th Assembly, IMO Secretary-General Mr. Efthimios E. Mitropoulos said the award was "a tribute to extraordinary courage; to adversity faced and adversity overcome; to determination in the face of grave danger; and to lives risked and lives saved." The Searose G was on passage through the Mediterranean, bound for the Suez Canal, when it responded to a distress call from the Maltese-flagged Teklivka, which was sinking 50 miles south in gale force winds. By the time the Searose G reached the scene, the Teklivka had sunk. Nevertheless, a dramatic rescue operation was launched and the Searose G managed to rescue nine crew members with a further three survivors picked up by another vessel. Tragically, three crew members of the Teklivka were lost.
http://www.marinelink.com/Story/ShowSto
Wrecked Ships in Black Sea Start to Leak Sulfur
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Sulfur from two ships that sank in a storm near the Black Sea last week is leaking into waters already polluted by an oil spill from another vessel, UkraIne's Environment Ministry said on Monday.
Four ships sank in the Kerch Strait on the northern mouth of the Black Sea in one of the worst storms in a century. They included a Russian-registered tanker which disgorged hundreds of tons of oil, creating a environmental disaster for the area's ecology. Tens of thousands of birds, covered in heavy fuel oil and unable to fly, have been killed mostly on Russia's side of the strait. The pollution has also killed fish and even dolphins, according to environmental agencies. Two other Russian ships were carrying several thousand tons of sulfur. Source: Reuters
http://www.marinelink.com/Story/ShowSto
Somali Pirates Free Taiwanese Ship
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Somali pirates on freed a Taiwanese vessel held since May, following the release a day earlier of two South Korean ships that were then sailed to Yemen under U.S. Navy escort. Andrew Mwangura, head of the East African Seafarers' Assistance Program, said the Taiwanese ship and its 12 crew, eight Kenyan and four Taiwanese, were freed from a pirate-held port north of Mogadishu. The United States Navy's Fifth Fleet, based in Bahrain, confirmed the release, and said it was providing unspecified assistance to the ship. The Taiwanese vessel went free as five U.S. warships were escorting two South Korean vessels to Yemen, after their release on Sunday after being held for five months. The two South Korean boats are registered in Tanzania's Zanzibar islands.. It said all 24 crew -- 10 Chinese, four South Koreans, four Indonesians, three Indians and three Vietnamese -- were safe. Gunmen attacked the vessels, the Mavuno 1 and Mavuno 2, off the Somali coast on May 15 as they were traveling to Yemen. Somali pirates are still holding two other craft: a Japanese-owned, Panama-flagged Golden Nori chemical tanker they seized last week and the Al Marjan cargo ship registered in Comoros. The U.S. Navy said it was monitoring those ships. Source: Reuters
http://www.marinelink.com/Story/ShowSto
IMO Bravery Award Presented to Searose G Seafarers
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
The inaugural IMO Award for Exceptional Bravery at Sea has been presented to two seafarers who risked their lives to save others in a dramatic rescue operation in gale-force winds. Second Officer Mustafa Topiwala of the 83,155 dwt Bahamas-registered oil/bulk ore carrier Searose G and Captain Zvonimir Ostric (who was on the vessel as onboard trainer at the time of the incident) were selected to receive the inaugural 2007 IMO Award for Exceptional Bravery at Sea, in recognition of their part in the rescue of survivors from the sunken vessel Teklivka, in the eastern Mediterranean, in March 2006. They were nominated by the Bahamas and by the International Federation of Shipmasters' Associations (IFSMA).
Presenting the award, during a special ceremony in London held during the Organization's 25th Assembly, IMO Secretary-General Mr. Efthimios E. Mitropoulos said the award was "a tribute to extraordinary courage; to adversity faced and adversity overcome; to determination in the face of grave danger; and to lives risked and lives saved." The Searose G was on passage through the Mediterranean, bound for the Suez Canal, when it responded to a distress call from the Maltese-flagged Teklivka, which was sinking 50 miles south in gale force winds. By the time the Searose G reached the scene, the Teklivka had sunk. Nevertheless, a dramatic rescue operation was launched and the Searose G managed to rescue nine crew members with a further three survivors picked up by another vessel. Tragically, three crew members of the Teklivka were lost.
http://www.marinelink.com/Story/ShowSto
Wrecked Ships in Black Sea Start to Leak Sulfur
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Sulfur from two ships that sank in a storm near the Black Sea last week is leaking into waters already polluted by an oil spill from another vessel, UkraIne's Environment Ministry said on Monday.
Four ships sank in the Kerch Strait on the northern mouth of the Black Sea in one of the worst storms in a century. They included a Russian-registered tanker which disgorged hundreds of tons of oil, creating a environmental disaster for the area's ecology. Tens of thousands of birds, covered in heavy fuel oil and unable to fly, have been killed mostly on Russia's side of the strait. The pollution has also killed fish and even dolphins, according to environmental agencies. Two other Russian ships were carrying several thousand tons of sulfur. Source: Reuters
http://www.marinelink.com/Story/ShowSto
