48 hours after its master confirmed the anchoring of the vessel
The hijacked chemical tanker MT Fairchem Bogey arrived on the Somalia coast and anchored just north of Bandar Beyla onMonday afternoon.
Twenty crew members on board the hijacked vessel – all Indians – are “safe” and “sound”, said a representative of a Mumbai firm managing the ship.
Nearly 48 hours after it was hijacked by the Somali pirates from Salalah port in Oman, the ship reached the Somalia coast and its master confirmed the anchoring of the vessel north of Bandar Beyla to Messrs Anglo-Eastern Ship Management Pvt Ltd, a Mumbai-based firm which manages the ship.
“As our first concern is with the well-being of the crew and their families, we are pleased to be able to advise that all the families of the crew of the Fairchem Bogey have been contacted by crew members and from all accounts, the crew is safe and sound,” Ferdi Stolzenberg of Hong Kong-based MTI Network (Asia), representing Anglo-Eastern Ship Management, told Gulf News via email.
Stolzenberg said that the pirates had not made the “first contact” with the managers of the ship. “We are still waiting to make first contact with the hijackers,” he pointed out.
Source: Gulf News