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ITF targets worst flags to scrap unsafe shipping from Mediterranean Sea

The Manila Times 21 Mar 2023

UP to a thousand ships flagged to the Cook Islands, Palau, Sierra Leone and Togo will be targeted for safety, maintenance and seafarer welfare inspections across the Mediterranean Sea in the coming eight weeks by an army of inspectors from the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF), seafarers' unions and port authorities.

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Flag Administrators Denounce ITF’s Targeted Inspection Campaign

The Maritime Executive 21 Mar 2023

They listed Palau along with ships flagged to the Cook Islands, Sierra Leone, and Togo as the targets saying that ships from these flags had over 5,200 deficiencies or detentions issued by European Port State Control enforcement agencies, as listed by the Paris MOU between 2020 and 2022.

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ITF targets four flags in the Mediterranean Sea

SAFETY4SEA 17 Mar 2023

Up to a thousand ships flagged to the Cook Islands, Palau, Sierra Leone, and Togo will be targeted for safety, maintenance and seafarer welfare inspections across the Mediterranean Sea in the coming eight weeks by an army of inspectors from the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), seafarers’ unions and port authorities.

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ITF targets worst flags in bid to scrap unsafe shipping

Tanker Operator 17 Mar 2023

Up to a thousand ships flagged to the Cook Islands, Palau, Sierra Leone, and Togo will be targeted for safety, maintenance and seafarer welfare inspections across the Mediterranean Sea in the coming eight weeks by an army of inspectors from the International Transport ...

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Vessels registered to the Cook Islands, Palau, Sierra Leone and Togo targeted in Med substandard ...

Splash24/7 17 Mar 2023

Up to 1,000 ships flagged to the Cook Islands, Palau, Sierra Leone, and Togo will be targeted for safety, maintenance and seafarer welfare inspections across the Mediterranean Sea in the coming eight weeks by an army of inspectors from the ...

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ITF Launches Inspection Barrage Targeting Substandard Shipping in Med

The Maritime Executive 16 Mar 2023

The inspections will take place over the next eight weeks in the Mediterranean for ships operating under the flags of the Cook Islands, Palau, Sierra Leone, and Togo ... Many of these ships are dangerous and should not be trading.” ... “Our goal is to expose the substandard shipping examples that we see regularly in our ports.

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THE LEKKI DEEP SEA PORT

This Day 02 Feb 2023

Huge trade cargoes are also lost to Benin Republic, Togo, and other neighbouring countries from where they are offloaded and transhipped to Nigeria due to poor shipping connectivity, shallow draft of the port channels, and general infrastructural inadequacies.

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Black Sea MoU: Preliminary results of CIC on STCW

SAFETY4SEA 31 Jan 2023

During the CIC period, involving all types of ships, a total of 1,329 inspections were carried out. Of these inspections, 1,140 inspections were performed using the CIC questionnaire and a ship was subjected to only one CIC inspection during the campaign period ... ships.

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Spanish police seize 4.5 tons of cocaine from livestock carrier

Anadolu Agency 28 Jan 2023

Spanish police on Saturday said they seized a cattle ship off the Canary Islands that was carrying 4.5 tons of cocaine ... On that occasion, they also found a similarly sized ship sailing under a Togo flag carrying 4.5 tons of cocaine. Instead of cattle, the crew of that vessel said they were shipping coffee.

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Spanish police bust ship carrying over 9,900 pounds of cocaine to Europe

Anadolu Agency 20 Jan 2023

Spanish police said on Friday that they busted a cargo ship carrying 4,500 kilograms (9,921 pounds) of cocaine from South America to Europe. The ship, named Blume and sailing under the Togo flag, was apprehended off the coast of the Canary Islands ... the ship.

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After Bomb Hoax, Officials Find 2.4 Tonnes of Cocaine on Board Boxship

The Maritime Executive 16 Jan 2023

The report of a bomb aboard the container ship MSC Lorena last month turned out to be false, but authorities turned up something else in her cargo ... "The ship had to be anchored for a week, so the cargo could not be unloaded ... The ship departed again on January 4, bound for Togo.

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Netherlands arrest suspect for false bomb threat on MSC containership

SAFETY4SEA 13 Jan 2023

... call warning about a ship explosion in case of the vessel docks in the port of Antwerp-Bruges ... The ship departed Antwerp on January 4 bound for Lome, Togo where she is due to arrive on January 14.

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Arrest in Bomb Threat Against MSC Containership

The Maritime Executive 12 Jan 2023

The MSC Lorena, a 59,587 dwt containership, was inbound to the Port of Antwerp on the night of December 22 when the Belgian police received a telephone threat against the ship ... The police held the vessel until December 29 with the crew remaining aboard and the ship in the Dutch anchorage.

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Don Stephens, Founder of Mercy Ships, Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from African Dignitaries at The ...

The Galveston Daily News 15 Dec 2022

Since 1990 to this day, from Lomé in Togo to Dakar in Senegal, the international humanitarian organization Mercy Ships deployed its hospital ships and conducted 33 missions in 14 African countries to provide first-class surgical operations, build medical capacity and foster sustainable development in countries with limited access to surgical care.

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The Queens Lawyer Who Could Help Free Brittney Griner

New York Magazine 08 Dec 2022

Zissou in his Queens office. Photo. Victor Llorente. Update. On December 8, the U.S ... Bout was an active arms dealer for less than a decade but harnessed a talent for aviation logistics to ship weapons to embargoed conflict zones all over the world, including countries like Afghanistan, Togo, and Rwanda — often helping to power bloody civil wars ... The U.S.