Efforts by the master and crew of a Knutsen OAS Shipping LNG carrier were successful in preventing a pirate boarding off Nigeria, a company executive said.

Hilmar Lund-Andersen, Knutsen vetting manager and company security officer, confirms to TradeWinds that shots were fired on the 176,000-cbm La Mancha Knutsen (built 2016) while it was approaching a pilot station some 100 nautical miles off the Nigerian coast on Friday.

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