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BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻 @[email protected] · 2026-08-20 · 17:09 UTC

Fascinating read on the tracking and ultimate interdiction of a cargo vessel in the South China Sea carrying ~ 5 metric tons of methamphetamine.

Details the maritime transportation pipeline running from Myanmar to China, through the Andaman Sea, the Malacca Strait, and the South China Sea, and onto ports across Southeast Asia, Northeast Asia, and the Pacific.

Ships use extensive methods to avoid detection including completely changing the ship's identity and running "dark".

Also, there is a growing trend in Southeast Asia to locate and operate industrial scale drug labs and cyber-scam compounds side by side. https://windward.ai/knowledge-base/how-the-ji-sheng-exposed-asias-maritime-meth-corridor/

#Methamphetamine #Meth #China #Myanmar #MaritimeShipping #CargoVessels #Ketamine #CyberCrime #CyberScams #SouthChinaSea #MalaccaStrait #AIs #MMSI #DEA #DrugEnforcement #DrugBust #shipping

#methamphetamine #meth #china #myanmar #maritimeshipping #cargovessels

ResearchBuzz: Firehose @[email protected] · 2026-08-01 · 10:32 UTC

RTE: ‘The human side’ – project gathers tales from Dublin Port. “Joseph Jones, who began working in the docks of Dublin in 1939, reminiscing and recounting tales from another era, is just one of the Dublin Port workers from down the years who have shared their stories for an oral history project.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/01/rte-the-human-side-project-gathers-tales-from-dublin-port/

#dublin #dublinport #internationaltrade #ireland #irelandculture #irelandhistory

ResearchBuzz: Firehose @[email protected] · 2026-04-27 · 11:39 UTC

Ars Technica: Crypto scam lures ships into Strait of Hormuz, falsely promising safe passage. “Crypto scammers are targeting the thousands of ships stranded near the Strait of Hormuz—and at least one ship that faced Iranian gunfire may have been tricked into believing it had paid Iran for safe passage.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/27/ars-technica-crypto-scam-lures-ships-into-strait-of-hormuz-falsely-promising-safe-passage/

#2026iranwar #cryptocurrency #digitalcurrency #fraud #maritimeshipping #onlinesafety