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Nigeria to Remain on Insurers’ List of Riskiest Waters
Nigeria will remain on a list of the world’s riskiest waters that insurers rely on to determine how much to charge…
Hong Kong ship Amber Bay ran aground at Bocas de Ceniza
The Corporación Autónoma Regional del Río Grande de la Magdalena (Cormagdalena) reported that early Wednesday…
X-Press Pearl’s captain and chief engineer arrested in police fire…
The master of the X-Press Pearl, which has been burning off the coast of Colombo, Sri Lanka, for nearly two weeks,…
Catastrophe in Indonesia
Local authorities have launched a search for hundreds of people who were rescued from a passenger ferry that caught…
Denmark to send frigate to combat piracy in Gulf of Guinea
Denmark has agreed to send a navy frigate to the Gulf of Guinea to combat the scourge of piracy and crew…
Three Bulgarians convicted of smuggling cocaine into southern Africa by sea
South African authorities have sentenced three Bulgarian nationals to lengthy prison terms for their involvement in…
Suez Canal begins dredging wider southern section
The Suez Canal Authority (SCA) has begun dredging work to widen a second lane to allow two-way traffic in a…
Egypt unveils plan to widen the Suez Canal
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Egyptian President, approved the widening and deepening of the southern part of the Suez…
Egypt offers to reduce compensation it has always claimed to $600 million
Egypt offered to reduce by one-third the compensation claims of the owners of the container ship that blocked the…
Philippines denounces China’s ‘dangerous’ move
The Philippines has protested China's "dangerous maneuvering" against its coast guard cutters who patrolled and…