Libya seized a foreign oil tanker and trawler Wednesday off the country’s western coast and detained their crews for questioning in Tripoli, the navy and coast guard said. “The Rex, a Tanzanian-flagged tanker registered in Zanzibar, was intercepted” loaded with a suspected illegal cargo of Libyan diesel, navy spokesman General Ayoub Kacem told AFP. A […]
Joshua Mitchell, the young man convicted of killing a gas station attendant in a fatal gas-and-dash in 2015, apologized for his actions after being sentenced. “If I had the chance to switch places with Ms. Rashidi, I would,” said Mitchell after learning of his 11-year sentence. Mitchell’s sentence include a lifetime ban from driving. […]
Greece’s Evalend Shipping is vehemently denying an allegation of fuel smuggling after Libyan authorities detained one of its chemicals tankers this week to investigate its crew. The 20,000-dwt Levante (built 2008) has been held since 27 August when the Libyan coastguard intercepted the vessel as it was ballasting about 25 miles off the country’s coast, […]
Dimapur, August 28 (MExN): ACAUT Nagaland today termed the “accusation” of Rio-led NPF that the former is showing favoritism to Shürhozelie’s party as “utter nonsense”. In response to the NPF’s statement on ACAUT’s allegation against Chief Minister TR Zeliang published on August 27, ACAUT Nagaland reminded that when Dr. Shürhozelie was the then Chief Minister, […]
Posted at Aug 29 2017 10:05 PM The Department of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday said it has launched efforts to secure the release of 20 Filipino seafarers detained by the Libyan navy on suspicion of fuel smuggling. “The Philippine Embassy in Tripoli has been directed to make sure they get urgent access to our detained […]
The International Institute for Sustainable Developments Global Subsidies Initiative and The Institute for Essential Service Reform discuss Indonesia’s energy subsidies, the impact on the community and reform of energy subsidies in the report, “A Citizen’s Guide to Energy Subsidies in Indonesia. As noted in the section titled Corruption and Smuggling, price disparity between subsidized and […]
May 14, 2014 [www.inewsguyana.com] – The Guyana Energy Agency has allowed “border trade” along border areas to the west as long as the materials being brought into Guyana are being utilised within the border area. This statement was made in response to questions being raised about the use of fuel sourced “unofficially” by persons in border […]
By James Poulos (Original article: theweek.com) Three months ago, I slept fitfully during a 13-hour layover in the international terminal of Istanbul’s Ataturk airport. The U.S. Mission in Turkey had just published an emergency message warning of “credible threats to tourist areas, in particular to public squares and docks in Istanbul.” My nerves were jangled, but in […]
By AFP Published: December 17, 2015 RIYADH: Saudi Arabia, whose subsidised fuel prices are among the world’s lowest, said on Thursday it foiled a large-scale attempt to illegally export diesel fuel. Nine million litres (around two million gallons) of the fuel in 450 tankers “had been prepared at a number of locations” in Riyadh and […]
Police officers during the closure of an illegal fuel depot in Salgaa, Nakuru. PHOTO | FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP An illegal fuel adulteration network is continuing with its activities one year after senior Energy ministry and security officials intensified a crackdown to dismantle the powerful cartel. Investigations by the Nation show that the organised […]