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Mar

2024

Houthi missiles fired at ship in Red Sea, U.S. military says

YEMEN'S Iran-aligned Houthi group fired missiles at a Liberian-flagged container ship in the Red Sea but did not hit the vessel, the U.S. Central Command said. Two anti-ship ballistic missiles were fired at the Pinocchio from Yemeni territory, CENTCOM said, resulting in no damage or injuries. Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Sarea earlier on Tuesday said the group had targeted and hit the ship, which he described as "American". The Pinocchio is a Liberian-flagged container ship owned by Singapore-registered company OM-MAR 5 INC, according to shipping databases operated by Equasis and the UN's International Maritime Organization (IMO). Sarea said the Houthi…

Dec

2023

By The African Mirror

Suez Canal traffic uninterrupted after ship suffers fault – canal authority

BUSINESS

A container ship collided with a floating bridge in the eastern lane of the Suez Canal but the passage of ships through the waterway was not interrupted, the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) said. Tugboats helped the One Orpheus after it suffered a fault with its rudder while transiting the canal on its way from Singapore to the Netherlands, the authority said in a statement. The incident occurred in the eastern lane of the middle section of the canal, built as an expansion that was completed in 2015. Convoys of ships coming from the south were diverted along the original branch…

Mar

2021

By The African Mirror

Top three take-away lessons from the Suez Canal blockage

BUSINESS

FOR a week the world was gripped by the extraordinary sight of a massive container ship that had run aground in the Suez Canal in Egypt. The Ever Given is 400m long (1,312ft) and weighs 200,000 tonnes, with a maximum capacity of 20,000 containers. It was carrying 18,300 containers when it became wedged in the canal, blocking all shipping traffic. Efforts to free it finally paid off when it was partially dislodged in the early hours of Monday 29 March. Adejuwon Soyinka asked maritime security expert Dirk Siebels to unpack lessons learnt from the incident. DIRK SIEBELS, PhD (Maritime Security),…

Mar

2021

By The African Mirror

Suez Canal container ship accident is a worst-case scenario for global trade

BUSINESS

IT'S estimated that 90% of the world’s trade is transported by sea. As consumers, we rarely give much thought to how the things we buy make their way across the planet and into our homes. That is, until an incident like the recent grounding of a huge container ship, the Ever Given, in the Suez Canal exposes the weaknesses in this global system. RORY HOPCRAFT, Industrial Researcher, University of Plymouth KEVIN JONES, Executive Dean, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Plymouth KIMBERLY TAM, Lecturer in Cyber Security, University of Plymouth High winds have been blamed for the container ship…

Mar

2021

By The African Mirror

‘Beached whale’ ship could block Suez Canal for weeks

BUSINESS

YUSRI MOHAMED, GAVIN MAGUIRE and FLORENCE TAN A container ship blocking the Suez Canal like a "beached whale" may take weeks to free, the salvage company said, as officials stopped all ships entering the channel on Thursday in a new setback for global trade. The 400 m (430 yards) Ever Given, almost as long as the Empire State Building is high, is blocking transit in both directions through one of the world's busiest shipping channels for oil and grain and other trade linking Asia and Europe. The Suez Canal Authority (SCA) said eight tugs were working to move the vessel,…

Jan

2021

By The African Mirror

Gulf of Guinea pirates in ransom talks

NEWS

PIRATES who kidnapped 15 sailors from a Turkish-crewed container ship in the Gulf of Guinea have made their first contact with the shipping company to discuss a ransom, Turkish state media has reported. "Communication has been established with crew members of the Mozart container ship," Istanbul-based Boden Shipping, which provides technical management services for the vessel, was quoted as saying by state-owned Anadolu news agency. "Information has been obtained that all 15 crew members are in good health, not wounded and together," it said. One sailor, an Azerbaijani citizen, was killed in the raid while those kidnapped are from Turkey,…