ATHENS: Troops European Union (EU) torpedo attack against a pirate ship-Tanker crude oil with the Greek on the coast of Somalia, Friday (2 / 1), the Greek shipping ministry said.
Kriti Episkopi, with 29 crew, are in route to Greece from Iran when the signal of the danger signs because the raider attempted to board the ship, said the ministry. "There were two failed attempts to pirate it up and fled after the crisis response group is activated with one fighter, one helicopter and a frigate sent to that place," said the ministry.
The ship, owned by the Vardinoyiannis family cruise, Greek, is Greek-ship with the first to be attacked in the area, although several Greek-owned ships registered in other places have become targets.
"All crew members survived. Ship that sailed safely into port destination," Stylianos Dathermos, a company official said.
The MV Capt Stephanos Greek property is released, after being held for about three months. Friday early morning, the military said a French warship France has thwart attacks by Somali pirate on a cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden and the arrest of eight men.
Piracy off the Somali coast, one of the most busy place in the shipping world, increased rapidly in the past year, and earnings pirate millions of dollars ransom payments and increase the cost of maritime insurance.
NATO ships launch anti-piracy operations off the coast of Somalia at the end of October, but ships that failed to stop the rain attack, which ships about 100 years ago, with about 40 boats seized, including a Tanker Saudi Arabia that save oil worth 100 million U.S. dollars.
In December the EU take over control of the operation. Greek, the employer of almost a fifth of the world merchant fleet, providing the command rotation. (Ant/Reuters/OL-03)
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