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Paradise firms up sale

Brokers say price tag tied to LR1 reflects 2010 hijacking and 2012 collision.

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Paradise works to sell coated tanker 'Polar'
Star pool set for Chemikalien four
Paradise partners up with Heidmar

13 May 2013

Sunship crew freed

All five officers from German owner’s City of Xiamen released unharmed by Nigerian pirates.

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Five seized from boxship

13 May 2013

Double attack off Togo

Two tankers targeted by robbers in four days off growing western African piracy hotspot.

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13 May 2013

Asylum seeker unmasked

Hijacker of Marida Marguerite held in Germany after trying to gain entry under false name.

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13 May 2013

Pirates’ double strike

Laskaridis reefer comes under fire off West Africa hours after CMA CGM boxship attacked in same position.

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06 May 2013

Tankers raided

Pirates steal cash and belongings after boarding two vessels off Singapore.

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06 May 2013

Leopard crew evacuated

Two Danes and four Filipinos kidnapped by Somali pirates take air ambulance to Europe.

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06 May 2013

Early offer rejected

Leopard owner reveals pirates would have taken $3m two months into kidnap ordeal.

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03 May 2013

Leopard six freed

Crew seized from Danish cargoship released by Somali pirates after more than two years.

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Concern mounts for hostages held on land
"Help us before we die"
Leopard guns ‘untouched’

30 Apr 2013

"Five seized" from boxship

UPDATE: Nigerian sources say master and four officers kidnapped from Maersk-chartered Sunship vessel off Nigeria.

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Hijack suspected
Four crew seized
Suezmax's double jeopardy

29 Apr 2013

Hijack suspected

Offshore crew ship and three men go missing in waters off Brass in Nigeria.

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26 Apr 2013

Four crew seized

West African gunmen kidnap Russians and Ukrainians from L&B containership.

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25 Apr 2013

Suezmax's double jeopardy

Euronav tanker fired on by pirates off West Africa, then wards off potential second attack a week later.

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24 Apr 2013

Counterfeit corsairs

Revealed: how western journalists looking for interviews are held to ransom by fake Somali pirates in Kenya.

Piracy down again

Incidents fall by a third during the first quarter, according to IMB figures.

Pirate gets 11 years

Somali juvenile jailed in Japan for attempted hijack of MOL aframax.

Dryad backs Japan

UK maritime intelligence firm says it welcomes plans to allow armed guards on ships.

Laliotis tanker targeted

Greek shipowner’s MR products tanker was reportedly attacked off Bonny, Nigeria.

Guards back in India

Italy relents in case of marines accused of shooting dead fishermen from Dolphin tanker.

Robbers get organised

Dryad Maritime says piracy attacks in Southeast Asia are now 'carried out to order.'

Back with a bang

Niger Delta attacks back to 2009 level thanks partly to new gang, The Idiot Family.

Freed crew to be paid

Royal Grace men strike pay deal with owner after being released by pirates last week.

Singh stokes Lexie row

Indian premier threatens Italy over refusal to hand over tanker guards for murder trial.

Esther C trio freed

UK shipowner Carisbrooke confirms release of crew kidnapped from general cargo vessel.

Lexie guards “won’t return”

Protests in India as marines charged with shooting fishermen from tanker look set to stay in Italy.

Somalis release two

Dynacom suezmax tanker and chemical tanker Royal Grace have been freed by pirates.

Three AHTS crew seized

Seafarers taken by pirates in another raid on a Bumi Armada vessel off Nigeria.

Fractured, not broken

EU NAVFOR commander says fall in Somali attacks is easily reversible if complacency sets in.

Hostages freed

Crew of pirated Bumi Armada anchor-handler released after two weeks in captivity.

Pirates' appeal fails

UAE court upholds 25-year jail terms for 10 men who attacked Adnoc tanker.

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Pirates' appeal delayed
Pirates jailed for life

25 Feb 2013

Pirates wants $1.3m

Russia's foreign ministry denies three Bumi Armada crew released off Nigeria.

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Hostage count mounts
PSV "used in attacks"
More crew seized

22 Feb 2013

Hostage count mounts

Six foreign crew were taken from Bumi Armada AHTS in latest attack on Monday.

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PSV "used in attacks"
More crew seized

20 Feb 2013

Pirates nabbed

Dutch frigate arrests nine suspected Somali gunmen in two skiffs.

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Hostage count mounts
PSV "used in attacks"

21 Feb 2013

Hostage count mounts

Six foreign crew were taken from Bumi Armada AHTS in latest attack on Monday.

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PSV "used in attacks"
More crew seized

20 Feb 2013

PSV "used in attacks"

Hijacked Armada Tugas 1 believed to have taken part in two kidnappings off Nigeria.

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More crew seized
Officers kidnapped
Three crew kidnapped

19 Feb 2013

More crew seized

Foreign seafarers reportedly kidnapped in another raid on AHTS off Nigeria.

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Officers kidnapped

19 Feb 2013

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Asylum seeker unmasked A Somali pirate has been arrested in Germany after seeking asylum under a false name.
Pirates’ double strike A Greek reefer has come under fire off West Africa, hours after a CMA CGM boxship was attacked in the same area.
Sunship crew freed All five officers seized from a Sunship boxship off Nigeria last month have been released unharmed.
Double attack off Togo Togo in West Africa has seen two attempted tanker hijackings in a little over four days, a piracy watch dog has disclosed.
Crewman reveals torture ordeal
Ukrainian tells US trial that pirates threatened to execute him at knifepoint on board Germany’s Marida Marguerite.