Here's a freighter loaded with cars, steaming from South Africa to Japan, check.
Golden Venture, freighter loaded with 300 illegal Chinese immigrants, runs aground off Rockaway; 10 die.
They include a Ukrainian freighter loaded with tanks, artillery, grenade launchers and ammunition, which has been held hostage since late September.
Last month, it took a freighter loaded with South Korean cars six hours to sink after a collision there.
Greenpeace activists protesting the threat of an attack on Iraq have moored their flagship, the Rainbow Warrior, across the bows of a British freighter loading military supplies for the Persian Gulf and vowed to stay put.
In two of the most daring attacks, pirates seized a Ukrainian freighter loaded with 33 battle tanks in September, and a Saudi oil tanker carrying $100 million worth of crude oil in November.
When the same satellites warned that a North Korean freighter loaded with hidden Scud missiles was headed for the Middle East, the United States arranged for Spain to stop the ship last week.
Last January, it was reported that the U.S. Navy intercepted an Iranian freighter loaded with military supplies as it headed for Syria, and in November Israel's Navy stopped another ship carrying war matériel; the cargoes were believed to be bound for Hamas and Hezbollah.
NAIROBI, Kenya — The Somali pirates who hijacked a Ukrainian freighter loaded with tanks, artillery, grenade launchers and ammunition said in an interview on Tuesday that they had no idea the ship was carrying arms when they seized it on the high seas.
So when the phone rang with a tip that an enormous freighter loaded with hashish was plying international waters south of Sicily — bound for Libya, hundreds of miles to the east of the usual quick drug route to Spain — Francesco Amico, a senior investigator, immediately knew something odd was going on.
