Pirates off Nigeria kidnap 2 from U.S. oil supply ship

 

 

 

 

 

Captain and engineer taken from ship in West Africa's Gulf of Guinea

 
The U.S. oil supply ship C-Escort, owned by Edison Chouest Offshore of Cut Off, La., is a sistership to the C-Retriever, which has been attacked by pirates off the coast of Nigeria. (Edison Chouest Offshore)

 

Pirates attacked an oil supply vessel off the Nigerian coast and kidnapped the captain and chief engineer, both U.S. citizens, a U.S. defence official and security sources said Thursday.

Pirate attacks off Nigeria's coast have increased by a third this year as ships passing through West Africa's Gulf of Guinea, a major commodities route, have come

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La Línea: "Los narcos van en gran cilindrada y nosotros en Citröen antiguo"

Diario Andalucía

La población gaditana se moviliza para pedir a las administraciones una mayor implicación en un momento en el que los narcotraficantes se mueven casi con total impunidad

Los sindicatos policiales piden más medios y más personal para combatir en una guerra en la que las bandas cuentan con la última tecnología y con unas 3.000 personas 

"Los narcos van en coches de gran cilindrada y nosotros en un citröen antiguo. Tras nuestras reclamaciones, Zoido nos mandó un todoterreno con 400.000 kilómetros. Se cachondean de nosotros", denuncia Antonio Olivencia, coordinador del Campo de Gibratar del Sindicato Unificado de Policía

Los vecinos denuncian que "el más tonto gana 1.000 euros en un día". "Hay una generación que ha normalizado vivir del narco"

Francisco J. Jiménez 

23/02/2018

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CORSO Y FLOTA DE INDIAS. LOS CONVOYES INGLESES APRESADOS EN 1780 Y 1795

 

 

 

por MARINA ALFONSO MOLA

La práctica de la piratería y el corsarismo, como es bien sabido, corre paralela, desde sus albores, a la navegación mercantil. La reglamentación del corso evoluciona a lo largo de su devenir histórico, pues interesa una legislación clara a fin de establecer la participación del rey en los beneficios de las presas y la legitimidad de las mismas. Las disposiciones legales se van superando lentamente al par que los casos prácticos evidencian la necesidad de una precisión en los conceptos. Según los estudiosos en la materia l el origen de los textos oficiales que regulan el corso es español 2 . No es necesario un recorrido exhaustivo a través de las sentencias y ordenanzas referidas al corso y

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Chemical tanker attacked off Somalia

 

Somalia, pirates repelled: EU Naval force

George Obulutsa

 

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Suspected Somali pirates attacked a Singaporean-flagged chemical tanker on Friday but were repelled by guards on board, the European Union’s Naval force said, the first such incident in several months.

EU Navfor said in a statement the 50,000 metric tonne MT Leopard Sun was sailing from Sohar in Oman to Cape Town, South Africa, when it was attacked by two skiffs 160 nautical miles (295 km) off the coast of Somalia.

“The skiffs approached from the stern and fired upon her, after which the on-board Private Armed Security Team returned fire with warning shots,” EU Navfor said.

The incident lasted around 20 minutes, and the vessel and crew were safe.

The attack, likely to

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Six crew from German ship kidnapped in Nigerian waters

Six crew from German ship kidnapped in Nigerian waters

BERLIN (Reuters) - Six crew from a German container vessel have been kidnapped in Nigerian waters, a shipping company said on Tuesday.

Four of those taken are Filipino, and one is a Ukrainian national, according to the Philippines department of labor and Ukrainian foreign ministry.

Kidnapping for ransom is a common problem in parts of Nigeria. A number of foreigners have, in the last few years, been kidnapped in the Niger Delta, source of most of the crude oil which is Nigeria's economic mainstay.

"The vessel was attacked by pirates on early Saturday morning when it was approaching one of the ports of Nigeria," said a spokesman for Peter Doehle Schiffahrts

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