What are some steps that could be taken to end the hijacking of ships in 2008. Couldn't traps be set and just sink the hijackers as they came out? Couldn't cargo ships hide some "Special Armed" personnel to give the raiders a little surprise when the got close? This way only actual hijackers get hit and not just any groups of arm people driving around in boats. It's interesting that a Jordanian-flagged vessel was released. Why couldn't smart weapons just happen to fall on where this vessel was released from? :m16shoot:
Are these ships making bad choices in the route there using? Maybe there doing things that others may not approve of and really shouldn't in the area in the first place. I guess what I'm saying badly am I missing anything here?
Dutch ship 'hijacked' off Somalia
A Dutch cargo ship is reported to have been hijacked by pirates off Somalia.
The MV Amiya Scan, with a crew of nine, was seized after leaving the Kenyan port of Mombasa on 19 May, reports say.
The ship is believed to have been bound for the Romanian port of Constanta, said Andrew Mwangura of the Seafarers' Assistance Programme in Kenya.
More than 25 ships were seized off the Somali coast last year, despite patrols by an international maritime force based in Djibouti.
"The ship was hijacked in international waters in the Gulf of Aden," the ship's owners, Dutch Reider Shipping, said in a statement sent to AFP news agency.
It said the crew were four Russian officers and five Filipino seamen.
Mr Mwangura said there had been no ransom demand as yet.
On Friday, Somali pirates released a Jordanian-flagged vessel they had hijacked a week before.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/africa/7420858.stm
Published: 2008/05/27 01:56:04 GMT
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7420858.stm
Are these ships making bad choices in the route there using? Maybe there doing things that others may not approve of and really shouldn't in the area in the first place. I guess what I'm saying badly am I missing anything here?
Dutch ship 'hijacked' off Somalia
A Dutch cargo ship is reported to have been hijacked by pirates off Somalia.
The MV Amiya Scan, with a crew of nine, was seized after leaving the Kenyan port of Mombasa on 19 May, reports say.
The ship is believed to have been bound for the Romanian port of Constanta, said Andrew Mwangura of the Seafarers' Assistance Programme in Kenya.
More than 25 ships were seized off the Somali coast last year, despite patrols by an international maritime force based in Djibouti.
"The ship was hijacked in international waters in the Gulf of Aden," the ship's owners, Dutch Reider Shipping, said in a statement sent to AFP news agency.
It said the crew were four Russian officers and five Filipino seamen.
Mr Mwangura said there had been no ransom demand as yet.
On Friday, Somali pirates released a Jordanian-flagged vessel they had hijacked a week before.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/africa/7420858.stm
Published: 2008/05/27 01:56:04 GMT
© BBC MMVIII
Link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7420858.stm