Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Maersk Alabama hijacked

The 17,000-ton Maersk Alabama was carrying emergency relief to Mombasa, Kenya, when it was hijacked, said Peter Beck-Bang, spokesman for the Copenhagen-based container shipping group A.P. Moller-Maersk. It was the sixth ship seized within a week, a rise that analysts attribute to a new strategy by Somali pirates who are operating far from the warships patrolling the Gulf of Aden.


Eventhough the ship is owned by Maersk, a Danish company, it is operating under U.S. Flag.

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