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Ports Authority not informed about seizure of Grenada registered vessel in Libya waters

This story was posted 1 year ago
23 December 2019
in General News
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by Linda Straker

  • Grenada flagged ship with a Turkish crew seized off Libyan coast
  • Ports Authority not yet notified of registration number nor name of ship

A Grenada Ports Authority (GPA) official said that the island is yet to be notified of the seizure of a Grenada flagged ship with a Turkish crew off the Libyan coast, as is being reported in numerous international news outlets.

Last Saturday, Haftar’s Libyan National Army navy combat vessel stopped the Grenada-flagged ship off the coast of the eastern city of Derna. The ship was then towed to Ras El Hilal port “for inspection and to verify its cargo,” Reuters news agency said.

فيديو :::عاجل : السرية البحرية سوسة تجر سفينة تركية الى ميناء رأس الهلال للتفتيشقامت السرية البحرية المقاتلة سوسة أثناء قيمها بدورية فى المياة الإقليمية الليبية قبالة ساحل درنة وفى الحدود البحرية التى تم ترسيمها بموجب اتفاقية الخيانة والعار بين تركيا وحكومة اللاوفاق تم القبض على سفينة تحمل علم غرينادا ويقودها طاقم يتكون من أتراك وتم جر السفينة إلى ميناء رأس الهلال للتفتيش والتحقق من حمولتها واتخاذ الاجراءات المتعارف عليها دوليا في مثل هذه الحالات

Posted by ‎الناطق الرسمي باسم القيادة العامة للقوات المسلحة العربية الليبية‎ on Saturday, December 21, 2019

Port Manager, Ian Evans, explained that the standard practice is for the flagged country to be notified whenever another country detained a vessel, but as of Monday, 23 December, Grenada had not received such notification. “Whenever a ship or vessel is seized, it is mandatory that the country where the ship is registered receives notification along with information explaining the reason for seizure, but we have not received such a notice.”

He further explained that Grenada has restrictions for registering ships. The policy mandates that any ship registering in Grenada must be owned by a Grenadian individual or registered corporate body. The courtesy is also extended to both individual and corporate citizens of other Caricom members.

Euronews, in an online publication, said that the capture of the vessel off the Libyan coast came amid rising tensions with Turkey. Neither the registration number nor the name of the ship is being made public.

Turkey’s parliament last Saturday approved a security and military cooperation deal with Libya, which could pave the way for Ankara to intervene to assist the Tripoli-based government in its ongoing battle with Haftar’s Libyan National Army.

Libyan Military Commander, Khalifa Haftar’s forces said they seized the ship with a Turkish crew, hours after Turkey’s parliament approved a defence pact in support of his rival in the North African country’s civil war.

Pirates are known to engage in the illegal act of claiming that its ship is registered in a country by flying its flag. Because the captured vessel is not publicly named, the GPA is unable to confirm if it is indeed among the ships registered in Grenada.

UPDATE: The ship has been released.

The vessel was seized because it entered Libya’s territorial waters without prior permission.

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  1. k wikk says:
    1 year ago

    as a citizen of this country the government need to change and let people with great and good intentions run this country one man in charge for too long all the taxes we paying as citizens there is no return’s and tge y are not using the tax monies in the correct manner more than full their pockets watch the road since i was 11yrs old i saw this road got done and even after 23yrs stil only a bit of patchwork here and there which makes no sense at all and this hundred feet of road that they are doing make no sense what we need is alternative roads to ease traffic congestion in this little island we call home people if we do not take a stand for our rights when will we have betterment ? and the grand anse valley main road need some alternate routes for whenever the traffic gets stuck which ever direction that your’e going you have to turn and go back but the government put a 100 ft of road inside by lala supermarket up that hill what they need to do is finish cutting the road and concrete it and instantly traffic ease stop taking taxpayers money and fulling ya’ll pocket we the citizen’s will not take it much longer

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  2. Dea n says:
    1 year ago

    This should be a very gentle caution to Grenada’s citizenship selling policy…

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