I can assure all members that shipspotting.com has no cooperation with ships.lv, balticshipping.com or any other external website.
It is generally considered that such scams are inevitable, and that rarely will sites of this kind respond to any requests to remove stolen images. There has been some limited success with more open and accessible sites (eg Instagram, MarineTraffic), with the direct help of individual members.
Nevertheless where contact is possible we will follow up on members' behalf. I have an apparent contact email for ships.lv - when/if it is confirmed as correct I will add it here so that individual members can demand the removal of their images if they so wish. We can pursue it in parallel in more general terms.
Incidentally, both ships.lv and balticshipping.com appear to have Latvian owners (not necessarily the same one).
The placing of a link to our front page beneath photographs is meaningless as not only have they stolen the photo, but also suppressed the ID of the copyright holder.