EU NAVFOR reported yesterday that the NYK general cargo vessel IZUMI (14,162-gt, built 2007), which had been pirated along with her crew of 20 Filipinos, has been released and has headed to a safe port. The ship was released on 25 February.
EU NAVFOR reported yesterday that the NYK general cargo vessel IZUMI (14,162-gt, built 2007), which had been pirated along with her crew of 20 Filipinos, has been released and has headed to a safe port. The ship was released on 25 February.
The Japanese ship was captured by Somali pirates in October 2010 and is known to have been used by the pirates for attacking other vessels. On at least one occasion Izumi was used to come alongside another ship, the PETRA 1 which was under charter to the African Union Military Mission in Somalia at the time and was sailing with an escort of the Spanish frigate SPS INFANTA CRISTINA. Notwithstanding the warship’s presence, the pirates in the NYK ship pressed ahead with their attempt on the other merchant vessel and it took the intervention of the frigate to dissuade them.
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