Naval forces more willing to engage with pirates

FURTHER evidence of a hardening of resolve amongst international naval forces to directly engage Somali pirates in control of international merchant ships emerged when the Russian naval warship Marshal Shaposhnikov recaptured a Novoship tanker in the early hours of the morning on May 6.

The 106,000 dwt tanker Moscow University was en route from Sudan’s Bayasher Terminal to Zhanjiang in China with 86,000 tonnes of crude oil when she was boarded and taken over by Somali pirates.
Following communication from the crew that it...

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