By Tony Tamuno and Paul Wallace

(Bloomberg) — Nigeria’s navy foiled an try by pirates to hijack a container ship operated by A.P. Moeller-Maersk A/S with 25 sailors on board.

Pirates boarded the Safmarine Kuramo, registered in Singapore, on Feb. 6 because it headed to Port Onne in Nigeria’s Rivers state from Pointe Noire within the Republic of Congo, in response to Olusegun Soyemi, a captain within the Nigerian navy.

“We got a Mayday distress call that the ship was boarded by an unconfirmed number of sea pirates after entering the nation’s territorial waters,” Soyemi advised reporters in Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers, on Sunday. “We immediately dispatched a warship and attack gunboats. The sea pirates,apparently on sighting advancing naval troops, fled the scene.”

None of the crew members, together with the South African captain, had been damage and all of the cargo was intact, Soyemi mentioned. Officials didn’t present specifics of the ship’s cargo.

The southern Niger River delta area has been a goal for former militants, who’ve just lately threatened to restart a insurrection that reduce oil output in Africa’s greatest producer by a couple of quarter between 2006 and 2009. Three pipelines had been bombed final month.

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