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.
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.