They have branches in other countries such as Belize and work in commercial, chartering and technical management of cargo fleet.
[1] On September 25, 2008, a ship named the MV Faina, heading to Mombasa in Kenya (with an alleged end destination of South Sudan) with T-72 tanks and other small arms and ammunition, was captured by Somali pirates.
[6] On April 11 2014, the Center for Advanced Defense Studies (C4ADS), a Washington, D.C.–based conflict research group, filed a complaint requesting a declaratory judgment and anti-suit injunction in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia against Kaalbye Shipping International Ltd, Global Strategic Communications Group (Kaalbye's public relations firm) and Peter Hannaford, senior consultant at GSCP, for shipping arms to Syria, China, Venezuela, and Angola.
A report published by C4ADS alleges that Kaalbye Group is closely affiliated with powerful politicians in Russia.
[10][11] In February 2018, in a legitimate arms sale, the Kaalbye-owned ship OCEAN ENERGY carried T-90S tanks from Ust-Luga in Russia to Umm Qasr in Iraq.