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06 January 2010
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05 January 2010
EU Navy Rescues Pakistan Ship Left By Somali Pirates - New York Times
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04 January 2010
AP: Filipino seafarers to undergo anti-piracy training
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MANILA, Philippines (AP) – The Philippines has ordered its seafarers, comprising about a third of the world's commercial sailors, to go through anti-piracy training before they will be allowed to board ships, the labor secretary said Monday.
The training, which lasts about eight hours, will be mandatory from Jan. 15. The measure is a response to a wave ship hijackings, which remain a serious problem a year after an international naval armada began operating off Somalia to protect shipping lanes.
Labor Secretary Marianito Roque said sailors will be taught how to use fire hoses and maneuver their vessels to prevent pirates from scaling them. They will also learn how to manage hostage crises if they are taken captive.
"Everyone who will be deployed on board a ship will go through the training," Roque told The Associated Press.
Recruiting agencies will conduct the training and issue a certificate required by the government prior to a seafarer's departure, Roque said
The program is based on one used by the International Association of Independent Tanker Owners, which operates about 80 percent of the world's tankers.
Sailors will not be armed and training classes will not include the handling of firearms, said Capt. Rex Recomite, a manager at the Norwegian Training Center in Manila.
The course will teach sailors how to detect approaching pirates and who to communicate with in case of an attack, he said. The guidelines include telling sailors to go full speed ahead in case the crew detects small vessels nearby, and to avoid sailing near coastlines, Recomite said.
The Philippines supplies about a third of the 1.5 million commercial seafarers worldwide. Somali pirates have kidnapped 470 Filipinos since 2006, and are still holding at least 74 aboard six ships, said Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Esteban Conejos.
Pirates operating off the coast of Somalia and the Gulf of Aden, one of the world's busiest sea lanes, have hijacked more than 80 ships in the past two years, with many of the seizures earning them multimillion-dollar ransoms. Attackers now hold 14 vessels and close to 300 crew members. Four vessels were seized last week.
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MANILA, Philippines (AP) – The Philippines has ordered its seafarers, comprising about a third of the world's commercial sailors, to go through anti-piracy training before they will be allowed to board ships, the labor secretary said Monday.
The training, which lasts about eight hours, will be mandatory from Jan. 15. The measure is a response to a wave ship hijackings, which remain a serious problem a year after an international naval armada began operating off Somalia to protect shipping lanes.
Labor Secretary Marianito Roque said sailors will be taught how to use fire hoses and maneuver their vessels to prevent pirates from scaling them. They will also learn how to manage hostage crises if they are taken captive.
"Everyone who will be deployed on board a ship will go through the training," Roque told The Associated Press.
Recruiting agencies will conduct the training and issue a certificate required by the government prior to a seafarer's departure, Roque said
The program is based on one used by the International Association of Independent Tanker Owners, which operates about 80 percent of the world's tankers.
Sailors will not be armed and training classes will not include the handling of firearms, said Capt. Rex Recomite, a manager at the Norwegian Training Center in Manila.
The course will teach sailors how to detect approaching pirates and who to communicate with in case of an attack, he said. The guidelines include telling sailors to go full speed ahead in case the crew detects small vessels nearby, and to avoid sailing near coastlines, Recomite said.
The Philippines supplies about a third of the 1.5 million commercial seafarers worldwide. Somali pirates have kidnapped 470 Filipinos since 2006, and are still holding at least 74 aboard six ships, said Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Esteban Conejos.
Pirates operating off the coast of Somalia and the Gulf of Aden, one of the world's busiest sea lanes, have hijacked more than 80 ships in the past two years, with many of the seizures earning them multimillion-dollar ransoms. Attackers now hold 14 vessels and close to 300 crew members. Four vessels were seized last week.
03 January 2010
Somali pirates seize two ships with Bulgarians, Romanians onboard
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SOFIA, Bulgaria -- A ship with 25 people onboard, including eight Bulgarians and two Romanians, was seized by Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden on Friday (January 1st), Bulgarian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Dragovest Goranov announced. The vessel, called "Asian Glory, was transporting vehicles from Singapore to Saudi Arabia. It was sailing under a British flag. (Focus, Standart, Mediafax, B92 - 02/01/10)
SOFIA, Bulgaria -- A ship with 25 people onboard, including eight Bulgarians and two Romanians, was seized by Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden on Friday (January 1st), Bulgarian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Dragovest Goranov announced. The vessel, called "Asian Glory, was transporting vehicles from Singapore to Saudi Arabia. It was sailing under a British flag. (Focus, Standart, Mediafax, B92 - 02/01/10)
02 January 2010
Somali pirates seize Indonesian chemical tanker
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Somali pirates have hijacked a chemical tanker in the Gulf of Aden - the third vessel seized in waters around Somalia this week.
Maritime officials said the Pramoni - a 20,000-tonne Indonesian-owned vessel - was seized en route to India and was now heading towards Somalia.
The ship has a crew of 24, most of whom are Indonesian.
Last Monday Somali pirates captured two other ships with 45 crew off the East African coast.
A UK-flagged chemical tanker, the St James Park, was captured in the Gulf of Aden while on its way to Thailand from Spain.
The Navios Apollon, a Panamanian-flagged Greek cargo ship with 19 crew, was hijacked north of the Seychelles.
In the latest incident, the captain of the Singapore-flagged Pramoni reported by radio that the ship had been hijacked but all the crew were well, the EU counter-piracy force Navfor said.
The ship's crew consists of 17 Indonesians, five Chinese, one Nigerian and one Vietnamese, it added.
Pirate attacks are common off the Somali coast and international navies have been deployed to counter them.
Somali Pirates Hijack U.K.-Flagged Ship; Fourth Vessel in Week
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Jan. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Somali pirates hijacked a U.K.- flagged vessel, the British government said, marking the fourth ship seized in a week.
No British citizens were on the Asian Glory, a car carrier, when it was taken, a Foreign Office spokesman said by phone today. He was unable to provide additional details.
The vessel is the fourth seized by Somali pirates after the hijacking of the chemical tanker M/V Pramoni yesterday, the bulk carrier MV Navios Apollon on Dec. 28 and the MV St James Park the same day. The St. James Park has arrived off Somalia, the European Union Naval Force Somalia said on its Web site today.
“Our priority remains the quick and safe return of our crew and the ship,” London-based Zodiac Maritime Agencies Ltd., owners of the Asian Glory and St. James Park, said on its Web site yesterday. “We still have had no contact from the pirates.”
The hijackings are the first successful attacks on merchant ships in the 500-mile security corridor since July. Some 20 warships from the EU, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and other countries patrol off Somalia, concentrating on the Gulf of Aden, a chokepoint leading to the Suez Canal that’s used by 30,000 ships a year carrying about a 10th of world trade.
Somali pirates now hold at least 12 ships, according to EU Navfor information and Bloomberg calculations. The Asian Glory has 25 crew, including eight Bulgarians, and was hijacked 620 miles (1,000 kilometers) off Somalia, Agence France Presse reported today, citing the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry.
The Asian Glory was built in 1994 and the St. James Park, a chemical carrier, in 1993 with a carrying capacity of 16,207 cubic meters, according to information on Zodiac Maritime’s Web site.
01 January 2010
Pirate Cash Suspected Cause of Kenya Property Boom - New York Times
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