Zeaborn has revealed a watch officer was threatened and robbed as armed men planted cocaine on one of its boxships underway off South America.

The German shipmanager told TradeWinds that the 2,546-teu Sealand Los Angeles (built 2008) had left Guayaquil, Ecuador, on 7 January when the two gunmen approached a crewman on the forecastle while he was on watch during an outbound river passage.