Israeli Forces Seize Gaza Aid Boat Carrying Greta Thunberg
Israeli naval forces boarded and seized a charity vessel carrying Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, which had tried to break the naval blockade of the Gaza Strip on Monday.
Hong Kong-based bulk carrier, Signe Bulker, took a wrong turn over the weekend while transiting the Great Barrier reef and ended up in hot water with Australian authorities.
While enroute to the northeastern Australia port town of Gladstone, the Signe Bulker cut through the Capricorn-Bunker group of islands making up part of the Great Barrier Reef. Since the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act of 1975, this island group has had a very distinct shipping-exclusion zone drawn around them, one that was blatantly crossed by the Signe Bulker.
In the Gladstone Magistrates Court, the ship’s officers pleaded guilty for entering a restricted zone and were fined a total of $53,000.
This same area was damaged in 2010 when the coal-carrying ship Shen Neng 1 strayed from the shipping lane and ran aground on Douglas Shoal spilling fuel oil and costing insurers $4MM.
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