(coastguardnews) Coast Guard crews are responding to a report Tuesday of about 30
containers that fell off the deck from Seaboard’s 544-foot container
ship Intrepid, approximately 30 miles south of Key West, Fla., Monday.  Source

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• Coast Guard responds to two military planes collide in Charleston

     (coastguardnews)  The Coast Guard is responding to a report of a collision between two military aircraft approximately 30-miles northeast of Charleston Thursday evening.  Source

• Coast Guard responds to boat fire Wallapa Bay

     (coastguardnews)  Coast Guard crews responded to a boat fire approximately 40 miles from the coast of Wallapa Bay, Wash., Monday.  Source

• Coast Guard rescues three men from sinking fishing vessel

     (coastguard) The Coast Guard rescued three men Wednesday at about 2:00 a.m., after their vessel began taking on water approximately 60 miles northwest of Clearwater.  Source

• EU NAVFOR, Seychelles Coast Guard cooperation

     (marinelink) In the evening of December 6, approximately 250 nautical miles North West of Victoria Seychelles a pirate attack group was neutralized by EU NAVFOR and the Seychellois Coast Guard.  Source

• German Ship Ransom at $ 4 million, the Somali pirates Says

     Somali pirates holding a German container ship for ransom increased their demand to $4 million from $3 million after the raiders disagreed among themselves on how to divide the money, a member of the gang said.  The German-flagged Hansa Stavanger has been held since early April, when it was seized between

• Global Ship Lease does the 6627 TEU container ship

    Global Ship Lease, Inc., a containership charter owner, announced yesterday that it has taken delivery of the CMA CGM Berlioz, a 2001-built 6,627 TEU container vessel, as planned. Including the CMA CGM Berlioz, Global Ship Lease now operates a fleet of 17 vessels totaling 66,297 TEU, all on fixed rate long-term

• China Shipping Lines warned to keep themselves from Somalias pirate-field

    China has warned domestic shipping lines to keep away from the area where Somali pirates hijacked a China Cosco Holding Co’s bulk carrier in the Indian Ocean two days ago. China is trying to rescue the 25 crew members of the hijacked ship and has deployed its navy, the Ministry of

• Warning to vessels or containers lost at sea

    THE IRISH Coast Guard yesterday issued a navigation warning to all shipping after a ship lost seven containers in stormy seas off the south east coast while en route from Dublin to Cork. The 9,500 tonnes coaster, BG Dublin was on the last leg of its scheduled weekly service from

• Coast Guard airlifts ailing man from cruise ship 100 miles from Oahu

     (honoluluadvertiser)  A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter from Barbers Point yesterday airlifted an ill 63-year-old man from the cruise ship Carnival Spirit 100 miles off Oahu. Source

• Somali pirates attack ships in the Indian Ocean

    Somali pirates on Thursday seized a Singapore-flagged container ship in the Indian Ocean near the Seychelles, maritime sources told AFP. “The Singapore flagged and owned boxship Kota Wajar was seized around 300 nautical miles north the Seychelles,” said Andrew Mwangura, who heads the Kenyan chapter of East African Seafarers Assistance

• Cruise Ship Rescues man who police say Jumped From Another Cruise Ship

     (foxnews) A man who police say intentionally jumped overboard from a cruise ship off Florida was rescued by another cruise ship. The 34-year-old went overboard from the Carnival Sensation at 11:15 p.m. Wednesday about 30 miles off Port St. Lucie, according to the Coast Guard.  Source

• Euroseas Ltd. announces Two-Year Time Charter Agreement

    Euroseas Ltd., an owner and operator of drybulk and container carrier vessels and provider of seaborne transportation for drybulk and containerized cargoes, announced yesterday that a subsidiary of the Company has entered into an approximately two-year time charter agreement for the M/V “Pantelis,” a 74,020 dwt, 2000 built Panamax bulk carrier, at

• Pirate attacks against ships dodging in the Indian Ocean

     (marinelink)  On the early morning of 10 November 2009 some 1000 nautical miles east from Mogadishu, Somalia, pirates attacked MV Nele Maersk, a Danish flagged Container ship. The attack took place not far from the area crude oil tanker BW Lion was attacked

• NORDEN enters into long term contracts, substantial freight contracts

    NORDEN has entered into the longest and largest COA in Handysize so far: a 15-year contract on transport of up to 12 million tonnes of cargo, which will result in approximately 30 annual shipments over the Atlantic. A contract this large is unusual within this vessel type.

• German Ship Freed Four months after the capture of the Somali pirates

     A German-flagged ship and its crew was freed four months after the container vessel was seized by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean.  The Hansa Stavanger is on its way to the Kenyan port city of Mombasa, the German Foreign Ministry said in an e-mailed statement, without saying whether a