Ship

The Turkish seismic ship, Oruç Reis, is set to embark on a mission to Somalia this weekend, as mentioned by Energy and Natural Resources Minister Alparslan Bayraktar. Minister Bayraktar broke the news about this expedition during an assembly held in Ankara on October 2. A recent accord between Türkiye and Somalia allows exploration for hydrocarbons in three specific offshore blocks. According to the agreement concluded in July, Türkiye has obtained the sole rights to explore and produce hydrocarbons in blocs each…

In Senegal, a turnaround for hundreds of tons of plastic waste. A boat from the German shipping giant Hapag-Lloyd was intercepted by the customs authorities in early May and fraudulently tried to bring the cargo into the territory. as reported from Dakar, Charlotte idracThe ship responsible for returning plastic waste left the…

Cargo ship stuck in the Suez Canal is moving again After the colossal ship that had blocked the Suez Canal for almost a week was partially flooded earlier Monday, it has now been released, according to local witnesses and a shipping agency in Egypt. With the help of high tide, a beautiful tugboat managed to unscrew the arch of the skyscraper size ever given from the sandbank by the…

A giant container ship remained stuck sideways in Egypt's Suez Canal for a fifth day on Saturday, as authorities prepared to make new attempts to free the ship and reopen the important east-west route for global shipping. The Ever Given, a ship with the Panama flag that transports cargo between Asia and Europe, ran aground on Tuesday in the narrow canal that runs between Africa and the Sinai Peninsula. The massive ship got stuck in a single field stretch of the canal, about 6 kilometers north of the southern entrance,…

Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar on Wednesday said in a letter to the port and maritime transport administration that his forces do not oppose the docking of Turkish-flagged commercial ships in the port of eastern Benghazi province, which his militias control. "We have no objection to entering our ports with Turkish-flagged commercial vessels following the stated legal procedures and legislation," Libya Al-Hadath, a pro-Haftar television station, quoted him in the letter. Libya has been torn apart by…

Putschist General Khalifa Haftar's forces claimed late Monday that they had intercepted a Turkish ship flying a Jamaican flag on its way to the port of Misrata in western Libya. Turkey is the main foreign supporter of the internationally recognized government of the National Accord (GNA) in the West, which has been fighting the Haftar-led East Libyan National Army (LNA) for years. LNA spokesman Ahmed al-Mismari said the commercial cargo ship, the Mabrouka, had a crew of 17, including nine Turkish…