Ship Release

  • Enrico Ievoli Liberato

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    Terzi: “grande soddisfazione per un esito positivo perseguito con tenacia, determinazione, e altissima professionalità da tutti i soggetti istituzionali coinvolti, ai quali va la mia più sentita riconoscenza” Liberazione della […]

  • Innocent Somali Crew Rescued

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    On Saturday 14 April Spanish warship ESPS Reina Sofia, who is now operating as part of the EU’s counter-piracy mission, Operation Atalanta, stopped a Yemeni dhow that was suspected of […]

  • Paying Ransoms

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    The case of Judith Tebbutt, the hostage recently released from the clutches of Somalian pirates, has cast doubt on Britain’s ransom policy, but paying hostage-takers ignores the deeper roots of […]

  • Judith Tebbutt Freed

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    A woman kidnapped from a remote beach resort in Kenya and held hostage in Somalia for more than six months is preparing to return home to Britain. Judith Tebbutt, 56, […]

  • Seafarers Lives at Risk

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    In a letter to British Prime Minister David Cameron, the General Secretary of Nautilus International has expressed concern that seafarers might pay with their lives if governments outlaw the payment […]

  • Banning Ransoms

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    InterManager President Alastair Evitt has stated that any move to ban the payment of ransoms to pirates would have a “massively detrimental effect on the risk to the world’s seafarers […]

  • Prisoner Swap for Dubai Ship

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    Somali pirates holding the UAE-registered cargo vessel MV Leila, hijacked off Oman last month, have demanded the release of fellow-hijackers from prison before they free the ship. Somali pirates want prisoner swap for […]

  • Somali pirates want prisoner swap

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    Somali pirates holding a Panama-flagged vessel hijacked last month with goods destined for Somaliland have called for fellow pirates in jails in the breakaway enclave to be freed in return […]

  • Family Take Over Negotiations

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    Aid organisation with strong ties in Somalia has been asked to halt negotiations for the release of Durban yachters Bruno Pelizzari and Debbie Calitz. Gift of the Givers taken off […]

  • EU NAFVOR Disrupts Pirate Action Group EU NAFVOR Disrupts Pirate Action Group

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    EU NAFVOR warship FGS BERLIN has successfully engineered the release of an Indian flagged dhow and crew, disrupting a Pirate Action Group and destroying two attack skiffs. On 28 February […]

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