Vessel ‘BT 99998 TS’ was arrested in the sea area about 115 nautical miles southeast of Con Dao over illegal diesel oil cargo.
Crew of unmarked vessel could not produce sufficient documents to support the origin of the cargo, according to Vietnam Coastguard statement.
2nd Reconnaissance Group inspected the wooden hulled ship “KG 95945 TS” on 14 July and found no supporting documents proving the origin of the oil.
2nd Reconnaissance Group inspected the wooden-hulled ship “KG 91283 TS” on July 2 and found no documents proving the origin of the cargo.
Record of administrative violations made and fishing vessel was escorted to the port of Nam Can (Ca Mau) for further investigation and handling.
The Vietnam Coast Guard inspected iron-hulled oil tanker HP-3839 on Sunday (6 June) at 4am and found it contained 25,000 litres of diesel oil.
“All of the above oil was purchased [from vessels] floating on the sea, then transported to sell to fishing boats,” said a statement from the maritime...
The fishing vessel spotted at 16:00 on April 27, about 75 nautical miles at the sea area southeast of Con Dao, was brought to a stop...
To date, Reconnaissance Task Force 2 has arrested four out of four converted fishing boats transporting large quantities of DO oil without proof of legal origin.
Patrol team was out on inspection rounds on 8 April at 10 pm when they discovered the vessel behaving suspiciously 13 nautical miles southwest from Tho...
