Klos C at Eilat after Israeli arrest for arms smuggling

An Israeli Navy boat escorts the Panamanian-flagged cargo vessel Klos C into the Israeli port of Eilat on Saturday after seizing it in the Red Sea on Wednesday, March 8, 2014.

 Name: Klos C IMO: 8918710

Flag: Panama MMSI: 373773000

 Callsign: 3FWB8

Former name(s): - Klostertal (Until 2012 Jul) - Otztal (Until 1996 Jul)

Technical Data Vessel type: General Cargo Gross tonnage: 5,624 tons Summer DWT: 6,985 tons Length: 110 m Beam: 18 m Draught: 5.3 m Additional Information Class society: Germanischer Lloyd Build year: 1996 Builder (*): Severnaya Verf St.petersburg, Russia


Owner: Whitesea Shipping &Trading

Marshall Islands

Manager: Whitesea Shipping &Trading Marshall Islands

the Turkish protest ship Mavi Marmara 

 [January 23 2011]







A 300-page reported released Sunday by Israeli government-appointed commission said the the soldiers' use of lethal force "were found to be legal pursuant to the rules of international law."

The commission, headed by a retired Supreme Court justice, included four Israeli members and two international observers — David Trimble, a Nobel peace laureate from Northern Ireland, and Brig. Gen. Ken Watkin, Canada's former chief military prosecutor. All signed off on the conclusions. aeli naval commandos killed nine activists aboard the Turkish protest ship Mavi Marmara on May 31 after passengers resisted the takeover of the vessel in international waters.

Mavis Marmora Israel agrees to pay for deaths

Meeting a longstanding Turkish demand, Netanyahu apologized for the deaths of nine activists aboard the Turkish ship and promised to pay compensation to their families, according to a statement from his office. [June 4, 2010]

Mavis Marmora
Ship Type: Passenger
Year Built: 1994
Length x Breadth: 93 m X 20 m
DeadWeight: 525 t
Speed recorded (Max / Average): 13.8 / 9.6 knots
Flag: Comoros [KM]
Call Sign: D6FU2
IMO: 9005869, MMSI: 616952000

MAVI MARMARA Comoros D6FM6 2010-05-22
MAVI MARMARA Turkey TCBY 2010-05-01

The party with legal jurisdiction over the event - is the Comoros Islands. The cargo ship was purchased for $800,000. “No ship-owner consented to lease theirs for the campaign"


Although there was a remote chance Israel could attack the ships, Bülent Yıldırım said before departing, the prospect was unlikely, adding that such action would the equivalent of attacking a consulate, which would have severe consequences for relations between the countries.

Chariot: Russian-owned vessel back in Aegean

After a dash for Russian waters, the vessel turned around and is past Izmir headed towards Turkey again. Chariot’s captain earlier confirmed the ship had arrived in Turkey from Tartus, Syria. Sources said last week in Cyprus at least 35 tons of munitions and explosive material were discovered and in Turkey that the vessel contained a cargo of bullets. Russia's Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov said his country is not violating any international obligations by selling weapons to Damascus. "As of today there are no restrictions on our delivery of weapons," he told journalists in Russia, according to the country's state news agencies. "We must fulfill our obligations and this is what we are doing." "I found him relaxed and sure. He is confident in the Russian position," Wahhab told the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar in an interview with Assad in Damascus published February 2. back

HMCS Charlottetown: to Libya also JTF2, SF unit

Canada is sending one of its warships to the Mediterranean to help Canadians trapped in violence-wracked Libya to get out of the country.

HMCS Charlottetown is slated to depart Halifax Wednesday. Defence Minister Peter MacKay said the combat ship included a Sea King helicopter and the government was prepared to go beyond simply getting the remaining 100 to 200 Canadians still in Libya out.

"The intention here is obviously to provide ... for the continued support of all efforts to remove Canadians ... from Libya as well as support, if need be, certain humanitarian efforts," he said.

JTF2, Canada's elite special forces unit, has been sent to the region. Mr. MacKay would not comment on JTF2's movements but did note that some Canadian troops are embedded within the operations centre with British and other allied forces.
A gunman opened fire inside a bus carrying U.S. servicemembers at the airport in Frankfurt, Germany, today, killing two members of the U.S. Air Force, a U.S. official said.

One of the dead was the bus driver. Two other American servicemembers were reportedly seriously injured in the incident.

The servicemembers were not based in Germany but were transiting through,German police arrested a 21-year-old suspect from Kosovo at the scene. He was identified as Arif Uka from the northern city of Mitrovica.

USS Barry (DDG-52) A highlight of this exercise [FLEETEX 2-94] was a covert SEAL team extraction in shallow water only a few miles off the Carolina coast, successfully validating the littoral combat characteristics of the DDG-51 class

HMCS Charlottetown (FFH 339)
Class and type: Halifax-class frigate
Displacement: 3,995 tonnes (light)
4,795 tonnes (operational)
5,032 tonnes (deep load)
Length: 134.2 m
Beam: 16.5 m
Draught: 7.1 m
Propulsion: 2 × LM2500 Gas turbines
1 × SEMT Pielstick Diesel engine
Speed: 30 knots (56 km/h)
Range: 9,500 nautical miles (17,595 km)
Complement: 225 (including air detachment)
Armament: 24 × Honeywell Mk 46 torpedoes
16 × Evolved Sea-Sparrow SAM
8 × RGM-84 Harpoon SSM
1 × 57 mm Bofors Mk2 gun
1 × 20 mm Vulcan Phalanx CIWS
6 × .50 Caliber machine guns
Aircraft carried: 1 × CH-124 Sea King.

Foreign countries should refrain from military intervention in Libya as opponents of Muammar Gaddafi's rule do not want such interference, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu of Turkey said on March 2..

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had earlier ruled out any NATO role in Libya, where Gaddafi's brutal response to an uprising against his rule has led to fears over bloodshed and a humanitarian crisis. But Davutoğlu's remarks are the clearest expression of Turkish opposition to foreign military action in Libya, which came as the US sent two amphibious assault ships towards the North African country.

rachel corrie: 480 to a Beersheba prison

"We have not made a final decision yet, but 'Rachel Corrie' is coming. She left Malta on her way to Gaza the night before last and she should be coming near Crete today," Bomse said, adding she was proceeding slowly.
About 480 of the foreign activists who were stopped by Israel on the high seas while sailing to Gaza were transferred over night to a prison in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba where they were being questioned.

Another 48 activists had already been transported to Israel's Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv to be expelled abroad.

Frigia: bomb-making nitrates closely monitored

Class: Oliver Hazard Perry USS John A. Moore (FFG19) recommissioned in the Turkish Navy as TCG Gediz (F-495)













The hijacking of the Frigia is potentially more complicated. It is unclear if its cargo of fertilizer is nitrate-based, which could be used for bomb-making in Somalia.
Naval warships generally monitor such hijacked ships very closely and it is difficult to unload cargo without proper port facilities. Using fertilizer to make bombs also requires some expertise and the Somali Islamists have not used such bombs before.

Ayhan Ugurlubay, a spokesman for the Turkey-based Karya shipping company, said officials received a distress signal from the Frigia early Tuesday but have had no contact with the ship since then.

The ship was carrying fertilizer from Israel and was heading for Thailand, he said. The ship had 19 Turks and two Ukrainians on board.

“We carried out all the required procedures. The ship sailed through the dangerous zone in a convoy, escorted by [Turkish navy frigates] the Gediz and Gelibolu,” he told Turkey’s state-run Anatolia news agency.

“The incident occurred one and a half days after it left the naval convoy ... It is the first time that a ship has been kidnapped so far away,” he said.

Frigia: Garanti bulker hijacked closer to India

Frigia IMO: 7507485
Malta flagged Turkish owned (Garanti Finansal Kiralama, a subsidiarty of Turkiye Garanti Bankasi AS, Istambul) cargo ship MV FRIGIA, deadweight 35,000 tonnes. The captain of Malta-flagged Frigia reported March 23 AM to the ship’s owner that pirates were on board while the vessel was traveling from Egypt to Thailand. The ship was 450 n-miles outside the area where the anti-piracy force operates about 1000 n-miles from Somalia, which is closer to India than Somalia. It was originally heading east, but is now heading west and appears to be heading towards Somalia. The vessel has a 21-member crew, made up of 19 Turks and two Ukrainians. The ship is carrying phosphates and potash,

Garanti Finansal Kiralama A.S. (Garanti Leasing) reflect the risky operating environment, the small size, limited business and geographic diversification, and weak wholesale funding profile of the company. Offsetting these negative factors are the company's ownership by, and strong expected financial support if needed, from Türkiye Garanti Bankasi A.S. (Garanti; BB-/Negative/--), as well as its leading commercial position in its niche market, good asset quality, and strong management. The long-term rating on Garanti Leasing benefits from a one-notch uplift from its stand-alone credit quality, as Standard&Poor's Ratings Services considers it to be a strategically important subsidiary of Garanti. Garanti Leasing is the largest leasing company in Turkey.