Somali pirates on Thursday seized a Singapore-flagged container ship in the Indian Ocean near the Seychelles, maritime sources told Agence France-Presse. "The Singapore flagged and owned boxship Kota Wajar was seized around 300 nautical miles north the Seychelles," said Andrew Mwangura, who...
Spain
wants EU naval forces to blockade ports in Somalia from where the vast
majority of pirate attacks against ships in the Indian Ocean have been
launched, Defence Minister Carme Chacon said Wednesday."Spain
will propose to our European Union partners at a meeting of foreign and
defence ministers on Monday and Tuesday that we focus our ...
Through the Armenian National Central Bureau of Interpol (ANCBI)
today in the international search is 256 persons, 12 of which data are
available on the website of Interpol www.interpol.int.
This today in Yerevan, said the head ANCBI, police colonel Vartan Yeghiazaryan.
According to him, for the 9 months of this year through ...
A spokesman of Somalia pirates told Reuters that De Xin Hai and 25 crew members aboard are likely to be released next week. The spokesman said that the negotiation with the owner is going on and that they agreed to accept a ransom of USD 3.5 million.
De Xin Hai was hijacked on October 19. It is owned by Qingdao Shipping Co. Ltd. in Shandong ...
Somali pirates on Thursday seized a Singapore-flagged container ship in the Indian Ocean near the Seychelles, maritime sources told Agence France-Presse. "The Singapore flagged and owned boxship Kota Wajar was seized around 300 nautical miles north...
Pirates operating off Somalia are being controlled by crime syndicates including foreigners lured by the multi-million-dollar ransoms, Interpol and other officials said on Wednesday. The pirates have also acquired sophisticated weapons and tracking...
Pirates off of Somalia's coast are becoming increasingly sophisticated and even an international naval force has done little to combat the scourge off the Horn of Africa, the Somali police chief said Wednesday. Somalia, which has had no functioning...
Pirates operating off Somalia are being controlled by crime syndicates including foreigners lured by the multi-million-dollar ransoms, Interpol and other officials said on Wednesday. ... They were speaking on the sidelines of Interpol's 78th
“I can't say that up to now there has been any progress about piracy,” Awaleh told reporters at an Interpol conference in Singapore. “The Somali government is fragile. The police have no power to chase or control such a long coastline.”
Experts estimate each successful hijack costs shipping companies about $7 million in ransom and other fees, and nets significant bounty for the pirates that has lured organized crime syndicates, Palmer said. "There's clear evidence of increasing ... "
Interpol: Crime Syndicates Helping Somali Pirates. Australian official says there is 'clear evidence' of increasing organization in pirates' activities. Read more: Interpol: Crime Syndicates Helping Somali Pirates ...
Interpol: Crime Syndicates Helping Somali Pirates. Posted October 14th, 2009 by admin. Australian official says there is 'clear evidence' of increasing organization in pirates' activities. US President tells reporters he does not view ...
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