Piracy
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Five crew kidnapped from PIL multipurpose vessel
The 2013-built 27,000 dwt multipurpose cargo vessel has been boarded by armed pirates offshore Cotonou of Benin in West Africa.…
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BW Offshore FPSO attacked by pirates off Nigeria, nine workers kidnapped
BW Offshore has announced that FPSO was attacked by pirates this morning around 4:20am local time offshore Nigeria. The pirates…
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Abu Sayyaf restarts kidnap-for-ransom at sea campaign
The Philippine Coast Guard is warning a faction of the terrorist group Abu Sayyaf is hunting vessels in Southeast Asia…
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Eight kidnapped Tommi Ritscher crew freed
Eight crewmemebers who were kidnapped by pirates from containership last month off Benin have been freed by the Nigerian Navy…
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Eight kidnapped Tommi Ritscher crew freed
Eight crewmemebers who were kidnapped by pirates from containership last month off Benin have been freed by the Nigerian Navy…
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Stolt product tanker attacked off Yemen
Stolt Tankers has detailed how its product tanker, the , was attacked by pirates 75 nautical miles off Yemen’s coast…
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Three pirate attacks in one day off West Africa
Piracy attacks continue to proliferate off West Africa with three incidents reported in just one day. The tanker Yuan Qiu…
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Two crew abducted from cargo ship off Equatorial Guinea
The 1993-built 8,900 dwt cargo ship was attacked by pirates off Malabo, Equatorial Guinea on Saturday and two crew members…
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10 crew kidnapped from product tanker off Nigeria
The Panamanian-flagged , a 6,152 dwt product tanker controlled by Piraeus-based Queensway Navigation, was attacked in Nigerian waters yesterday by…
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Crew from Tommi Ritscher citadel rescued, eight remain hostage
Nigerian special forces have rescued 11 crewmembers from the Portuguese-flagged containership , which was attacked by pirates off Benin on…
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Nigerian special forces deployed to free eight crew held hostage onboard boxship
Nigeria has dispatched a patrol boat with a detachment of special forces to try and resolve a hostage situation in…
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Abu Sayyaf team heads towards Malaysia on the hunt for kidnap targets
The International Maritime Bureau (IMB) Piracy Reporting Centre has been alerted by Malaysian intelligence that an Abu Sayyaf kidnap for…
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Seven crew kidnapped from MSC boxship in Gulf of Guinea
The 2005-built 957 teu feeder boxship was boarded by pirates in Gulf of Guinea on Sunday and seven of the…
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Crew thwarts pirate attack on Swiss bulker
A pirate attack on a supramax bulk carrier operated by Swiss owner SAM has been thwarted by the ship’s crew.…
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Minerva Marine tanker attacked by pirates off Benin
The 2006-built 51,000 dwt product tanker , owned by Greek owner Minerva Marine, was attacked by pirates off Cotonou, Benin…
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Shots fired at boxship off Nigeria
Shots were fired at a boxship departing West Africa on Friday in the latest violent attack to hit merchant shipping…
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Nine kidnapped in seventh attack off Cotonou in the space of just one month
Another ship has been attacked in West Africa with nine crew kidnapped. The , a tanker belonging to Greece’s Oceangold…
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Robbery attempts in the Singapore Strait escalate
Sunday saw two pirate incidents take place within an interval of an hour to a bulk carrier and a tanker…
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BIMCO boss hits out at Nigerian piracy status quo
The departing CEO of international shipowning organisation BIMCO has hit out at Nigerian authorities’ complete failure to rein in the…
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19 crew abducted from Union Maritime tanker released, one dead
The crew abducted from Marshall Islands-flagged chemical tanker last month have been released, however one of the crew members died…
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