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Chinese naval fleet returns from escort mission

China.dot.org 30 Aug 2023
During the evacuation of Chinese personnel in Sudan, the guided-missile destroyer Nanning and the comprehensive supply ship Weishanhu successfully transferred more than 1,000 Chinese and foreign people.
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On this day in history, August 9

Independent online (SA) 09 Aug 2023
Significant and interesting snippets of news with a South African angle, from this day in history ... 1483 Opening of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican. 1815 Napoleon sets sail for exile on St Helena on-board British ship, the Northumberland. 1877 Explorer Henry Morton Stanley’s party reaches Boma, Congo, after 999 days, losing half of their 228 members.
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Uganda to restore century-old rail link

Gulf Daily News 05 Aug 2023
Uganda has begun restoring a branch of a century-old, British-built railway line that is expected to cut the cost of shipping goods to the country’s north, South Sudan and Democratic Republic of Congo, a railway spokesperson said ... northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Uganda to reopen century-old rail link after China fails to fund new line

Reuters 04 Aug 2023
KAMPALA, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Uganda has begun restoring a branch of a century-old, British-built railway line that is expected to cut the cost of shipping goods to the country's north, South Sudan and Democratic Republic of Congo, a railway spokesperson said ... Republic of Congo.
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Uganda restoring colonial-era rail after China fails to fund another line

Al Jazeera 04 Aug 2023
The line will cut the cost of shipping goods to the country’s north, South Sudan and Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a railway spokesperson said on Friday ... Ugandan officials hope the restored rail line will replace trucks shipping goods to both South Sudan and DRC ... .
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WFW: Hong Kong Convention cannot be implemented without changes in the near future

SAFETY4SEA 06 Jul 2023
Bangladesh and Liberia have recently ratified the Hong Kong International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships (the “Hong Kong Convention”) ... Meanwhile, the EU Ship Recycling Regulation (SRR) has been in place since 2013 coming into force incrementally up until 2020.
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China's Peace Ark naval hospital ship an envoy of peace, friendship

People Daily 29 Jun 2023
Since it was commissioned into the Chinese Navy in 2008, the hospital ship has set sail on 10 overseas missions covering more than 260,000 nautical miles ... China's Peace Ark came for peace and friendship, said then Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo Clement Mouamba when the Chinese naval hospital ship visited the country in 2017.
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Kenya exports to other African countries up 23 pct in Q1 on enhanced ties

China.dot.org 31 May 2023
Most of the exports from Kenya during the period were shipped to Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda as well as Egypt, with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) emerging as the other leading destination of goods from the East African nation ... To Egypt, Kenya shipped goods worth 51 ...
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BIMCO launches industry film calling for safe ship recycling

SAFETY4SEA 26 May 2023
BIMCO has launched its fourth industry film, calling for the urgent adoption of the Hong Kong International Convention for the safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships, and for ship owners to only choose yards that live up to the convention. According to BIMCO, the film, “Ship Recycling.
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Christina Lamb: My ‘holiday’ cruising through pirate-infested waters

The Times/The Sunday Times 13 May 2023
Crew trapped in safe room after pirates attack ship” was the headline, describing the storming of a boat off the Congolese port of Pointe Noire and referring to the Gulf of Guinea as the world’s most dangerous shipping route ... The SH Vega is a boutique ship, with just over 100 passengers onboard ... The glitziest new cruise ship in the ocean.
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Six kidnapped seafarers regain freedom

SAFETY4SEA 09 May 2023
Six crew members of a Danish oil tanker kidnapped by pirates off the coast of Congo have been rescued, according to the ship’s owner. When pirates attacked the Liberian-flagged Monjasa Reformer on March 25, it had 16 seafarers on board ... said Anders Ostergaard, Monjasa CEO ... ....
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Danish oil tanker crew rescued after hijack off West Africa coast

Al Jazeera 08 May 2023
Six crew members kidnapped by pirates last month from a Danish oil tanker off the Republic of Congo have been rescued in Nigeria, the ship’s owner says ... The shipping company had previously said it had lost contact with the crew after pirates boarded the ship.
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6 tanker crew members seized by pirates freed in W. Africa

Times Argus 08 May 2023
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Six crew members of a Liberian-flagged tanker held hostage for more than a month by pirates in West Africa have been freed, the Danish shipping company that owns the vessel said Monday. On March 25, pirates boarded the Monjasa Reformer southwest of Port Pointe-Noire, Congo.
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Danish oil tanker crew kidnapped off west Africa rescued

Urdu Point 08 May 2023
Copenhagen, May 8 (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 8th May, 2023 ) .Six crew members kidnapped by pirates last month from a Danish oil tanker off Congo have been rescued from Nigeria, the ship's owner said Monday ... Monjasa had previously said it had lost contact with the crew after pirates boarded the ship.

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