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A merchant ship explodes in the Red Sea! Check the VGM cover-up!
Jun 07, 2024|
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British maritime security company Ambury said a merchant ship reported an explosion near the Red Sea, about 19 nautical miles west of the Yemeni port city of Moha.
On the same day, Britain's Office of Maritime Trade Operations said there were two explosions near a vessel 27 nautical miles south of Mocha. But the office said in a statement that no damage had been reported, that all crew members were safe and that the ship was on its way to its next port of call.
It was not immediately clear if the two incidents were linked, and no group claimed responsibility for the bombings.
In its briefing, Embry said the merchant ships it reported fit the profile of targets targeted by Houthi forces in Yemen. The Houthis have been attacking ships off the coast of Yemen for months.
Embry said the vessel was en route from Europe to the United Arab Emirates and did not send an automatic vessel identification system signal.
According to CCTV news, on the evening of the 5th local time, Yemeni Houthi armed military spokesman Yahya Sarrea said in a speech that the Houthi armed forces in the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea again launched three attacks against passing ships.
In the Arabian Sea, a drone attack was carried out on an American ship, the Maersk Seletar. In the Red Sea, the Houthis carried out two other operations, targeting the ships Roza and Vantage Dream, claiming that both belonged to companies that violated the ban on entering occupied Palestinian ports.
Check container VGM concealment
Recently, a number of freight forwarders issued an urgent notice to the owner, "Immediately from the dock to implement non-differential weighing, all containers random weighing, do not hide the weight!"
According to industry sources, the cause of the "Zhengli Qingdao" in Qingdao port overweight delay event.
The ship has a capacity of 4.250 TEU, and is attached to Dalian, Tianjin, Qingdao Port and other ports in northern China. When the ship set sail at Qingdao Port, it was found that the calculation draft and the actual draft error was very large, and the captain refused to set sail.
After being moored in Qingdao Port for 14 days, the ship unloaded all the loaded goods without unpacking and weighing them after coordination with the maritime and customs authorities, and found that a total of more than 4.000 tons of goods were hidden.
As many of the cargoes were heavier than the container load, the maritime informed the CNC that it needed to arrange for such cargoes to be fully loaded in flat boxes before they could be shipped, and penalized the customer and the shipping company.
CNC has blacklisted the shipper and product name of the overweight goods, and will not book the cargo space in the future, while pursuing the responsibility of such customers and bearing the corresponding losses.
Relevant data show that the container ship "QINGDAO TOWER" (" Zhengli Qingdao ", IMO9233832) is a French CMA CGM CNC container ship with a capacity of 4250 TEU (CMA CGM official data).
According to the ship's positioning data, the ship docked at the port of Qingdao on May 9 and left the port on May 24. which took up to 14 days, completely exceeding the normal berthing operation time of this type of ship.
At present, the relevant responsible departments of shipping companies and ports have issued warnings to customers, suggesting that relevant export enterprises and freight forwarding logistics enterprises should strictly and truthfully declare the VGM weight of goods, and should not conceal, misreport and maliciously underreport, so as to avoid serious safety risks caused by the false VGM data of cargo weight for ship stowage and navigation.
