Accident 丨 15 people were kidnapped! Another container ship was attacked by pirates; a container ship collided with a barge
note! Recently, there have been frequent incidents of pirate attacks on container ships in the Gulf of Guinea!
On December 19, a container ship named "MAERSK CADIZ" with a capacity of 4,500 TEU under Maersk was attacked by pirates in the Gulf of Guinea, south of Bonny, Nigeria.
On January 13, a container ship of Maersk with a capacity of 4,500 TEU named "MAERSK CARDIFF" was attacked by pirates in the southwestern waters of Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
It is reported that the "MSC Elsa 3" ship has become the latest in a series of pirate attacks in West Africa. A fast-moving boat approached the ship, but the security on board stopped the boat and fired warning shots.
The MSC ship has a capacity of 1,728 teu. At the time of the attack, the "MSC Elsa 3" sailed from Lome to Port Harcourt. Despite the shooting, the crew was not in danger. A source said: "Piracy activities in the area have surged, so it is standard practice to distribute security personnel in the area."
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"MSC Elsa 3" round data information
In addition, on January 23, a container ship named "MOZART" with a capacity of 2824TEU was also attacked by pirates in the waters off Nigeria in the Gulf of Guinea. At the time of the incident, the ship sailed from Lagos Port in Nile to South Africa. Of Cape Town.
The Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued an official statement on the 24th that a Turkish ship was attacked and hijacked by pirates in the Gulf of Guinea on the 23rd. 15 of the 19 crew on the ship were kidnapped and an Azerbaijani engineer was killed.
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After kidnapping most of the crew, the pirates left the ship in the Gulf of Guinea, leaving three crew members on board. According to reports, the pirates destroyed most of the ship’s systems, leaving only the navigation system for the rest of the crew to find the port of Chantil in Gabon.
According to reports, the attacked ship was named "MOZART" and belonged to the Boden company headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey. The ship was originally scheduled to depart from the Nigerian port city of Lagos to Cape Town in South Africa, but was attacked and hijacked by pirates while sailing through the waters of the Gulf of Guinea. The Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that there are frequent piracy activities in the waters of the Gulf of Guinea, and it has contacted the crew on board and will take necessary actions to rescue the crew as soon as possible and arrange repatriation as soon as possible. The ship is now heading for Gabon.
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According to the big schedule data, the two shipping companies Hapag-Lloyd and ONE have shared cabins for this vessel. Recently, the freight forwarder who has cargo loaded on the ship mainly pays attention to it, pays attention to the information of the shipping company and ship dynamics in time, and understands the delay of the ship.
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"MOZART" recent port calls
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According to the International Maritime Administration, the Gulf of Guinea is located off the coast of Nigeria, Guinea, Togo, Benin and Cameroon and is the most dangerous sea area for piracy in the world. In July 2019, 10 Turkish seafarers were kidnapped off the coast of Nigeria. They were released less than a month later.
▍A container ship collided with a barge
On January 23, a container ship "TANTO BERSINAR" collided with the palm oil barge MITRA JAYA XIX near the overseas anchorage of Gresik Port, Surabaya.
It is understood that the accident caused serious damage to the barge, which sank with 8 crew members, 3 crew members were rescued, 5 people were missing, and there was cargo leakage. The container ship "TANTO BERSINAR" was also slightly damaged and returned to Gresik to anchor at the anchorage in the inner port.
