Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) 🚢⚓🐪🚒🏴☠️
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The ship that struck the Brooklyn Bridge was the Mexican sail training ship ARM Cuauhtémoc. She was built in Spain in 1982 and has three sisterships. It appears the ship lost power after casting off. The tug Charles D McAllister was on hand to assist her departure from South Street Seaport. The ship lost her topmasts, and parts of her crew were stationed in them when she hit the Brooklyn Bridge. The Police and FDNY arrived on the scene to assist in the rescue. The ship was stopped and anchored before hitting the Manhattan Bridge.
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To everyone wondering why ships are holding up outside the Strait of #Hormuz right now, the reason is WAR RISK INSURANCE! Right now, every major Protection and Indemnity (P&I) Club is notifying their clients of the need for additional protection (AP). You see, the shipping companies are not worried about incurring damage from the Iranians. They are worried about incurring damage that is not INSURED! The ships will sail once they garner the additional protection or they will seek out another port to load, but 20% of global crude comes out of the Persian Gulf and through the Strait of Hormuz. Welcome to the world of Global Shipping!
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The statement from U.S. Central Command is very enlightening. Instead of conducting a boarding, USS Spruance warned Touska for 6 hours it was in violation of the blockade. It is not clear if the ship was suppose to divert or stop to be boarded. The ship continued toward Iran and crossed the blockade line from the Arabian Sea to the Gulf of Oman. When Touska refused to comply, Spruance moved off from the ship, sent a warning to abandon the engine room and then proceeded to fire with its 5 inch/Mk 45. The gunfire either disabled the machinery or the crew brought the ship to a stop. Marines from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit then conducted a boarding and seized the ship. It is surprising to see that the ship was fired upon and not boarded via helicopters as was done against Venezuelan tankers earlier this year. It is unclear what damage was inflicted to the ship, but it is showing Not Under Command on its AIS. More to follow.
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🚨NAVY LOGISTICS 🚨 Everyone seems concerned that the U.S. Navy ships in the Arabian Sea - carrier Abraham Lincoln stike group, 3-ship amphibious group based on Tripoli, and a surface action group centered on approximately 8 destroyers - are running low on food, with some pictures showing the supposed meals on board. To understand how the Navy supplies ships you have to understand how U.S. Navy's Military Sealift Command, the fleet of civilian merchant mariner crewed ships work. There are three main considerations - fuel, food, and ammo. 1️⃣Fuel: There are two MSC oilers in the Indian Ocean. They provide alongside Underway Replenishment (UNREP) for diesel fuel for ship population and JP5 for aviation. The oilers can carry between 180 to 150k barrels of fuel. A Burke can carry about 12k bbls of fuel. When the oilers run low on fuel, they will either return to a forward base or meet up with commercial tankers from the US merchant marine, some in the Tanker Security Program. These tankers are equipped to receive rigs from the MSC oilers so that they can transfer fuel to the oilers. The oilers can maintain their forward presence as station oilers while the commercial tankers shuttle fuel. 2️⃣Food & Ammo: There are three MSC dry cargo/ammo ships in the region. To keep the ships supplied one of the T-AKEs will rotate through the ships providing either replenishment at sea or vertical replenishment via civilian embarked AS-332 helos. Another ship would be rotating out a forward base to reload and tag team with the station AKE. The third AKE, along with civilian commercial ships, many of the Maritime Security Program, would shuttle forward supplies from commercial ports or Defense Logisitics Agency depots. 3️⃣ The addition of the Bush Carrier Strike Group will allow the Lincoln to pull back for down time and resupply at a base. Bush has a fast combat support ship (T-AOE) that can carry a mix of food, fuel and ammo on a ship capable of 26 knots. This ship is a one-stop shop for a carrier strike group. The arrival of the Boxer amphibious group will also provide a relief for Tripoli or operate in SE Asia to intercept, divert or board Iranian ships. Now, does this mean every ship on the blockade is supplied to full capacity...probably not. But before everyone leaps to conclusions that sailors are not being provisioned, understand that the US Navy and U.S. Central Command has done this for a long time. At the same time, this logistic system can be more robust and represents a point of vulnerability for operations. MSC has experienced issues with crewing and availability of vessels.
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The Malta-flagged 50k ton Greek-owned tanker and Marshall Is-flagged 74k ton American-owned tanker is on fire in the anchorage off Iraq. It is suspected the ships were hit by Iranian unmanned surface vessels (USVs). The ships were involved in a ship-to-ship transfer when hit and rescue craft are on scene. These two tankers carry approximately 400,000 barrels of oil.
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Strait of Hormuz Week 13 Update: Mines, Blockades, and "Dark" Ships 1⃣AIS Spoofing & "Ghost" Ships 2⃣CENTCOM disables Gambia-flagged Lianstar 3⃣New Maritime Advisories & Blockade Enforcement 4⃣Week 13 in Review 5⃣Can Global Shipping Ever Return to Normal? Video:
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Video released by the #Houthis seems to show the setting of explosive charges on the deck of the tanker #Sounion off the coast of Yemen in the #RedSea. At 150k tons, this tanker is almost twice the size of Exxon Valdez and the environmental damage to the region will be massive.
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How Effective is the US Blockade Against Iran? 1⃣Intercepting Foreign Tankers 2⃣The Storage Crisis: Iran’s Oil Well Pressure 3⃣The Blockade Biting Hard 4⃣Kettled & Drifting: Tankers Under Surveillance 5⃣The Impact on the Iranian Economy
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The US strikes against the tankers Sevda and Sea Strike III were well past the blockade line set up by the US. According to TankerTrackers.com, Inc., the ships were spotted to the east of Bandar-e Jask (the ships are dark on AIS). The ship location is in red. The area set up by the Iranains as the Persian Gulf Strait Authority is in yellow and the US blockade line is in blue.
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Two U.S. Flagged- Commercial Ships Sail Through the Strait 1⃣Project Freedom: U.S. mission to escort merchant vessels 2⃣Joint Maritime Information Center (JMIC) advisory and security threats 3⃣Iranian verbal warnings and threats to shipping 4⃣Marine Corps armed guards on ships 5⃣Role of Military Sealift Command (MSC), Strategic Sealift Officers (SSOs), Tactical Advisors (TACADs) & Naval Cooperation and Guidance for Shipping (NCAGS)
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🚨STRAIT OF HORMUZ🚨 Lots of action on 17-18 Apr 1️⃣Cruiseship Celestyal Discovery Breaks Out 2️⃣Large formation of ships head to Strait to depart the Gulf but Divert 3️⃣Wave of tankers breakout 4️⃣Cargo Ships follow but they are turned around; possibly fired upon 5️⃣Cruiseships breakout via southern channel Tune into What's Going on With Shipping on YouTube for full video today:
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