Saudi super tanker Sirius Star

21 said it would acquire Gener8 Maritime Inc. of New York, creating an independent tanker operator with a fleet of 75 crude tankers, including 44 VLCCs. ... "The crude tanker market has a double whammy: reduced OPEC exports and too many new ships," said Burak Cetinok, head of research at Arrow ...

Each is different — there are multicolored miniature oil tankers, British police boats, Indonesian fishing boats, cruise ships, rafts, schooners — but they do ... pays homage to the boats capsized during the 2011 tsunami; another, labeled the “MV Sirius Star II,” refers to an oil tanker seized by Somalian pirates ...

NAIROBI - Pirates have hijacked an oil tanker with eight Sri Lankan crew onboard, a Somali official said on Tuesday, the first time they have successfully taken a commercial ship since 2012. Experts said the ship was an easy target and ship owners were becoming lax after a long period without many ...

It doesn't have to do with dogs lying around in the heat—the phrase comes from ancient Greek beliefs about a star. Illustration of the constellations canis major and lepus. View Images. The ancient Greeks thought of the constellation Canis Major as a dog chasing Lepus, the hare. The star Sirius is the dog's ...

Mr Grady and his British colleague Peter French, 45, the chief engineer, were released on January 9 after a £2 million ransom was parachuted on the tanker by the ship's owners Vela International. He filmed the pirates hacking open the money with axes and leaving the ship. Five of the hijackers drowned ...

The ship's capture was by far the most audacious raid by increasingly bold modern-day buccaneers who have terrorised vessels plying one of the world's busiest shipping lanes through the Gulf of Aden or past Somalia's lawless coastline. More than 100 vessels were seized in the last 12 months, netting the ...

Earlier this week, a pirate on board the Sirius Star told the BBC that they had not been contacted by the supertanker's owner. The pirate, who called himself Daybad, said: "We captured the ship for ransom, of course, but we don't have anybody reliable to talk to directly about it." He added that they regarded ...

Earlier reports had said that the 1,080-foot-long ship, Sirius Star, had been hijacked off the Kenyan coast. ... While most of the hijackings have taken place in the Gulf of Aden, which separates Somalia from Yemen, the Saudi tanker was seized hundreds of miles to the south in a vast stretch of open ocean as ...

"It requires a holistic approach from the international community at sea, ashore, with governance, with economic development." Morrell said at least 18 ships are currently being held for ransom by Somali pirates, along with 330 mariners taken hostage. This year there have been 95 attempted ship seizures ...

Somali pirates have seized a giant Saudi-owned oil tanker in the Indian Ocean and are steering it towards Somalia, the US Navy reports. The Sirius Star is the biggest ship ever to be hijacked, with a capacity of 2m barrels - more than one-quarter of Saudi Arabia's daily output. The vessel was captured on ...