MORE CARGO SHIPS BOARDED BY YUGOSLAV MILITARY
More reports of cargo ships being boarded by Yugoslav military patrols are surfacing in the carrier industry.
The German cargo ship, Kaban, and Croatian vessel, Dea, were recently boarded by Yugoslav soldiers in the Port of Bar in Montenegro.
“We have approached the owners of these vessels to obtain more details to determine the motives behind these boardings,” said Thomas Timlen of the Baltic and International Maritime Council, which represents about 1,000 shipowners.
BIMCO has asked all its members to report similar incidents off Bar. “We may find that more vessels have been boarded,” Timlen said.
The U.S. government is still investigating a recent boarding of a Farrell Lines vessel, the Delaware Bay.