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According to the International Maritime Bureau’s Piracy Reporting Center, at 1810 UTC the other day, armed pirates assaulted and also boarded an oil vessel underway, around 76 nm south of Bonny,Nigeria Nineteen team were determined as missing out on. The vessel proprietors informed the Nigerian Navy and also MRCC for aid and also the continuing to be team cruised a vessel to a risk-free location.
Maritime safety professional Dryad Global claims that reporting shows that the vessel entailed is Navios Tankers Management’s Nave Constellation.
Dryad claims the pirates are thought to have actually left the vessel taking with them 19 team participants (18 Indians and also one Turkish), leaving 7 team memberse still aboard the vessel.
“This incident is the sixth maritime security incident and the fourth kidnapping incident to occur within 30 nm of the South Eastern boundary of the Nigerian EEZ within 2019,” claimsDryad “This is further confirmation of a developing trend of incidents that are assessed to be perpetuated by a well resourced pirate action group, most likely operating from one or more mother-ship vessels.”
Read the remainder of the Dryad evaluation of the case HERE
