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Puerto Limon Express of Monrovia, Liberia

Puerto Limon Express arriving at Felixstowe from Antwerp, Belgium.

 

Name: Puerto Limon Express

Vessel type: Container ship

Home port: Monrovia

Flag: Liberia

IMO: 9434943

MMSI: 636024483

Call sign: 5LSV3

Length overall: 210.09 m

Beam: 30.25 m

Draught: 11.5 m

Depth: 16.7 m

Gross tonnage: 26,836 ton

Max deadweight: 33,411 ton

Number of holds: 5

20' container capacity: 2,556, of which 500 are refrigerated

Engine: 1 x Sulzer 7RTA-72U

Engine output: 1 x 28912 hp (21,560 kW)

Max speed: 22.2 knots

Builder: Hyundai Heavy Industries Co Ltd, Ulsan, South Korea

Yard number: 2052

Year built: 2009

Owner: Fair Hope Ltd, Hong Kong, China

Operator: Bocimar International Nv, Antwerp, Belgium

 

Previous name:

Maersk Niteroi until May 2021

Poseidon Faith, until 2009 when launched

 

 

ROBBERY ATTEMPT THWARTED.

Maersk Niteroi was approached by three perpetrators in a small skiff and armed with handguns, who came alongside the vessel 16 miles southwest of Guayaquil, Ecuador, in position 02 30 54S, 80 05 06W, on 28th. August 2018. The crew raised the alarm when they spotted at least one perpetrator attempted to board the vessel. Upon hearing the alarm, the perpetrators aborted the attempt and the skiff moved away. The incident was reported to Guayaquil Port Control and Ecuador Coast Guard.

 

STORM CUUSED DISCOVERY OF SMUGGLED COCAINE.

140 kg of cocaine, which had been carried within a container aboard the Maersk Niteroi was found in Germany on 6th.January 2014. A container had been loaded with 1,150 kg of bananas and the drugs, which both were destined for Rotterdam, Holland. But the ship suffered a delay of six days due to stormy weather which it encountered coming from Santa Marta in Colombia, from where it had sailed on 10th. December 2013. Due to the delay the receiver of the cargo refused to take it, and ship went on to Hamburg with the drugs still on board, arriving there on 27th. December. Here the bananas were sold and distributed. When employees of a supermarket in Berlin opened seven boxes of bananas they found the bags of cocaine.

 

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