(Reuters)  The largest ransom ever paid to Somali pirates was dropped
on Sunday onto a Greek-flagged oil tanker with two million barrels of
oil on board, pirates and maritime officials said.  Source

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• Ransom paid for oil tankers, Somalia pirates clash

     (Reuters)  The largest ransom ever paid to Somali pirates was dropped on Sunday onto a Greek-flagged oil tanker with two million barrels of oil on board, pirates and maritime officials said.  Source

• Paid a ransom for cargo ship held by Somali pirates

    A ransom for the release of the cargo ship MV Filitsa has been delivered to pirates on board the vessel off the Somali coast, a regional maritime official and pirate sources said on Monday. Andrew Mwangura of the Kenya-based East African Seafarers Assistance Programme said helicopters dropped the agreed ransom,

• Somali pirates demand ransom for $ 15M Asian Glory

    The Somali pirates who abducted the UK-flagged ship Asian Glory have demanded a $15 million ransom, the Bulgarian news agency (BTA) reported on February 3 2010. The statement, which first surfaced in Ukrainian media, was allegedly attributed to a Ukrainian intelligence source who wished to remain anonymous. The Ukrainian foreign

• Yemen says Somali pirates attack Yemeni Cargo

    Somali pirates have seized a Yemeni cargo vessel with a crew of 16 and are taking it out towards the Indian Ocean, a Yemeni Defence Ministry website said on Monday. The vessel, called Al Mahmoud 2, had left Yemen’s southern port of Aden on Dec

• Gulf of Aden pirates are less successful at

     (latimes) Reporting from Manama, Bahrain – Although pirates last year made many more attempts to board ships in the Gulf of Aden and off the coast of Somalia, the number of successful seizures was about the same as in 2008, according to the U.S.-organized multinational maritime force here.  Source

• Asian Glory Pirates provide car carrier as the mother ship

    A giant car carrier, operated by Eukor and owned by Zodiac Maritime Agencies, is reportedly being deployed by Somali pirates as a mother ship on raids out into the Indian Ocean.

• Pirates Extend for attacks, target oil tankers from the Gulf

    Somali pirates have begun to target oil tankers from the Gulf states and have increased the range for attacks to the Gulf of Aden, Arabian Sea and in the Indian Ocean. The International Maritime Bureau has reported that Somali pirates were seeking to capture oil tankers from the Persian Gulf

• US-bound supertanker Seized by Pirates Off Somalia

    The Greek-owned supertanker Maran Centaurus was seized by pirates off Somalia while sailing to the U.S, raising concerns that attackers are ranging farther from shore to hijack merchant ships. The hijacking is “probably” the farthest from shore by Somali pirates so far, said Cyrus Mody, a manager at the International

• EU fleet arrests 13 pirates from Oman

    The crew of a Dutch warship has arrested 13 suspected pirates following an attack by fast boats on a cargo vessel in waters south of Oman, the EU naval mission said in a statement Thursday. “In total there were thirteen pirates and two of the original crew on board

• EU Naval Force: Somali pirates hijack Saudi Tanker

    Somali pirates have hijacked a Saudi tanker with 14 crew onboard, a spokesman for the European Union Naval Force said Wednesday. The Al Nisr Al Saudi usually carried fuel oil but was empty when it was taken in the Gulf of Aden on Monday, said Cmdr

• No report of injuries or losses of the two abducted ships: IMF Officer

    There was no report about any injuries and casualties so far on the two ships kidnapped by Somali pirates on Monday, an officer of the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) said here on Wednesday.

• Pirates use Indian dhow from Somalia: Maritime official

    Pirates have seized an Indian dhow off the coast of Somalia in the third such incident in a week, a regional maritime official said on Monday. Andrew Mwangura of the Mombasa-based East African Seafarers’ Assistance Programme said his group was seeking more details on the vessel, which he named as

• Egyptian crews Overpower the Somali pirates, Kill 2

     (VOAnews) A Somali pirate says the kidnapped crews of two Egyptian fishing vessels have won their freedom after attacking their pirate captors. One of the pirates on board, who called himself Miraa, says the hostages overpowered them with machetes Thursday.  He said the Egyptian crews then seized guns from the pirates, killing two of

• Pirates ransom paid for Greek supertanker

    Somali pirates freed the Greek supertanker Maran Centaurus, one of the largest ships ever hijacked, after a plane dropped more than five million dollars in ransom on the deck. The ransom sparked a deadly feud within the group of pirates delaying the release of the ship and its crew of

• Trained to fight pirates

     A step-change for the international maritime industry’s escalating war against piracy has been ushered in with the official opening of the Merchant Maritime Warfare Centre (MMWC), a UK based, non-profit organisation staffed by experienced maritime security specialists. MMWC has been… Read at Trained to counter pirates