Tag: pirates release crew

In its weekly report for 21-27 May, ReCAAP ISC reported two armed robberies against ships in Asia. One of them is CAT 4, which means the perpetrators were not armed, and the crew not harmed, but the other one was a CAT 2, which means a moderately significant incident, with crew held hostage. Both incidents occurred in Indonesia. 

The 12 seafarers, who were kidnapped by pirates from the Panamanian-flagged tanker 'Anuket Amber' and the anchor handling tug supply vessel 'Ark Tze' in October off Congo, have been released and are all safe, the managers of the vessels confirmed in an official statement.

The tanker 'Marine Express', which had been missing in the Gulf of Guinea since Friday and was feared to be hijacked by pirates, is now back under the command of the captain and crew, with all crew members reported to be safe.

Two Indonesian fishermen abducted by Abu Sayyaf terrorist group more than a year ago were released last Friday and were handed over from the Indonesian Foreign Affairs Ministry to their families. The two men were kidnapped on 5 November 2016, while sailing in Malaysia's waters of Sabah.

The Marshall Islands-flagged tanker 'MT Barrett' has been released from pirates, after captivity of six days, with all crew reported as safe, the owner company Union Maritime informed. The announcement comes only after a day the company confirmed that the missing tanker had been subject of a piracy attack in Gulf of Guinea.

The six crew members, who were kidnapped by pirates from the container ship 'Demeter', off the coast of Nigeria, were released after over three weeks of captivity. The six men, including the captain, were abducted from the Liberian-flagged vessel, while underway, off Bonny, on 21 October.

After they had seized the vessel in Somali waters some days earlier, Somali pirates took 11 crew members of an Indian cargo dhow captive, although the Somali security forces responded to the incident and managed to rescue the vessel, on April 10th.

Nigerian pirates have released eight crewmembers after they were kidnapped from the German-owned general cargo ship BBC Caribbean off the coast of Nigeria last month, the Russian embassy has confirmed, Russian news agencies report.

The hostages of the FV Naham 3 have been released after being kept in captivity by Somali pirates since vessel’s hijacking on 26 March 2012, roughly 65 nautical miles south of the Seychelles. Of the original 29-member crew, sadly one died during the hijacking and two more succumbed to illness during their captivity. The remaining crewmembers spent much of their captivity on land in Somalia, held for 1672 days.

Nigerian pirates released six Turkish crew members of Malta-flagged tanker MT Puli who were kidnapped two weeks ago off the coast of Nigeria.