All 15 seafarers kidnapped from a Borealis Maritime boxship in the Gulf of Guinea earlier this month are safe and well.

Contact has been made with the crew, and with the pirate gang that attacked the 2,824-teu Mozart (built 2007) off Sao Tome and Principe on 23 January in a raid that left one mariner dead.

Turkish technical manager Boden Maritime said that all the seized seafarers are uninjured and together.