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Arab News
March 5, 2010
Last year,
pirates seized the Saudi supertanker
Sirius Star carrying $100 million in oil cargo. In another incident, a Turkish vessel was about to be ...
BBC News
March 3, 2010
The captain of the ship is Greek but the nationalities of the rest of the crew are not known. In November 2008
Somali pirates hijacked the
Sirius Star, ...
Toward Freedom
February 22, 2010
In January 2009, the ransom for the Saudi tanker Sirius Star was $3 million. The next month, the ransom for the Ukrainian-flagged MV Fania rose to $3.2 ...
This is London
February 11, 2010
January 2009: The Saudi supertanker,
Sirius Star, was seized by
Somali pirates and freed following a reported ransom payment of $3m. ...
Infomarine On-Line
January 24, 2010
In November 2008, another oil tanker, the Sirius Star, which was also carrying some two million barrels of oil, became the largest ship ever seized by ...
Malaysia Star
January 23, 2010
The Saudi oil tanker Sirius Star had already been hijacked in the vicinity and later exchanged for a US$3mil (RM10mil) ransom just a year before. ...
Tanker Operator
January 22, 2010
A $3 mill ransom was believed paid for the release of another VLCC, the Sirius Star, in January 2009 and similar ransoms have subsequently been paid. ...
Jawa Pos
January 20, 2010
Rekor uang tebusan tanker Sirius Star terlampaui. Demi mendapatkan kembali tanker Maran Centaurus, perusahaan Yunani membayar USD 5,5 juta (sekitar Rp 50,7 ...
National
January 20, 2010
The
MV Sirius Star, a Saudi oil tanker, and the
MV Faina with its cargo of weapons were hijacked at the end of 2008. The attempted hijacking in April of the ...
Self-catering-breaks.com
January 20, 2010
Only slightly smaller than the Sirius Star, the Maran Centaurus has a capacity of 300294 deadweight tonnes and at the time of its capture was transporting ...
Australia.TO
January 18, 2010
Already during the release of the last very large crude carrier, the VLCC
Sirius Star the delivery operation saw the death of six
Somalis in a confused ...
Washington Post
January 18, 2010
A $3 million ransom was paid for the release of another oil tanker, the Sirius Star, in January 2009. Ransoms around that figure have been paid subsequently ...
El Paso Inc
January 3, 2010
LAST
Monday,
Somali pirates seized two more prizes in rapid succession: a British-flagged chemical tanker and a Greek bulk carrier, bringing the current ...
New York Times
December 29, 2009
10 -- Five of the
pirates who hijacked a Saudi supertanker drown with their share of a $3 million ransom, the day after the ship -- the
Sirius Star -- was ...
The Ecologist (blog)
December 27, 2009
Since the early 1990s ships from industrialised countries have been dumping nuclear and chemical waste into Somali waters. A Swiss firm called Achair ...
Sunday Times.lk
December 27, 2009
... an orange container with $3 million cash inside it was dropped onto the deck of the super-tanker MV Sirius Star to secure the release of ship and crew. ...
Journal of Turkish Weekly
December 24, 2009
Last year, the
pirates hijacked the Saudi-owned
Sirius Star. They eventually released the ship for a reported $3 million ransom. World powers, including the ...
Business Insurance
December 6, 2009
30 hijacking came just more than a year after
Somali pirates seized the Saudi-flagged
MV Sirius Star, the only other oil tanker
pirates have successfully ...
eTaiwan News
December 6, 2009
Somali pirates last seized an oil tanker in November 2008 when they took the Saudi supertanker
Sirius Star and its 2 million barrels of oil. ...
Monsters and Critics.com
December 3, 2009
The largest ship to be seized - Saudi tanker Sirius Star, which was carrying 2 million barrels of oil worth around 100 million dollars at the time - was ...
MSN Money
December 1, 2009
The hijacking comes one year after a Saudi tanker, the Sirius Star, was hijacked in the same region and held for two months before it was released for a ...
Harian Analisa
November 30, 2009
November 2008, para perompak membajak kapal tanker raksasa Arab Saudi Sirius Star yang mengangkut 2 juta barel minyak senilai sekitar 100 juta dolar. ...
Tempo Interaktif
November 30, 2009
Pada November 2008, para perompak membajak kapal supertanker Sirius Star milik Arab Saudi, dan menyandera dua juta barel minyak senilai sekitar US$ 100 juta ...
Bizmology
November 30, 2009
The ship was fully laden with 2 million barrels of oil on board. Sounds familiar? In November 2008,
Somali pirates boarded and commandeered the
Sirius Star, ...
insidesomalia.org
November 27, 2009
In November 2008, for example, the merchant vessel MV Sirius Star, laden with oil worth an estimated US$100 million, became headline news when it was ...
eTaiwan News
December 7, 2009
Somali pirates last seized an oil tanker in November 2008 when they took the Saudi supertanker
Sirius Star and its 2 million barrels of oil. ...
Tolerance.ca
December 3, 2009
The largest ship to be seized - Saudi tanker Sirius Star, which was carrying 2 million barrels of oil worth around $100 million at the time - was released ...
Gulf Times
December 3, 2009
On
Monday, the Athens-based owners, Maran Tankers Management, said no contact had been made with the ship since its seizure.
Hobyo is one of the three main ...
Earthtimes (press release)
December 3, 2009
The largest ship to be seized - Saudi tanker Sirius Star, which was carrying 2 million barrels of oil worth around 100 million dollars at the time - was ...
HeatingOil.com
December 3, 2009
For example, the November 2008 capture of the Sirius Star, a Saudi tanker and the only ship larger than the Centaurus to ever be hijacked, drove prices of ...
MSN Money
December 2, 2009
The hijacking comes one year after a Saudi tanker, the Sirius Star, was hijacked in the same region and held for two months before it was released for a ...
Independent Online
December 2, 2009
The largest ship to be seized - Saudi tanker Sirius Star, which was carrying 2 million barrels of oil worth around $100 million at the time - was released ...
MSN Money
December 1, 2009
The hijacking comes one year after a Saudi tanker, the Sirius Star, was hijacked in the same region and held for two months before it was released for a ...
Tempo Interaktif
November 30, 2009
Pada November 2008, para perompak membajak kapal supertanker Sirius Star milik Arab Saudi, dan menyandera dua juta barel minyak senilai sekitar US$ 100 juta ...
Times of the Internet
November 30, 2009
The attack on the Maran Centaurus appears to be only the second ever on an oil tanker, following last year's hijacking of the Saudi supertanker Sirius Star, ...
The International
November 26, 2009
In November 2008, for example, the merchant vessel MV Sirius Star, laden with oil worth an estimated US$100 million, became headline news when it was ...
Philadelphia Bulletin
November 21, 2009
Independent Online
November 17, 2009
When the giant Saudi tanker
Sirius Star - hijacked in 2008 by members of the same group - was released in January, the crisis ended fatally for six
pirates ...
World Sentinel
November 13, 2009
According to Safety at
sea magazine, the only large crude carrier ever hijacked was the Saudi tanker
Sirius Star, which was seized in November last year. ...
National
November 9, 2009
The attack last November on the giant Saudi oil tanker
Sirius Star, which
Somali pirates released in January for a Dh11m ransom, was a turning point, ...
