MV Pramoni

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Name:Pramoni
Port of registry: Singapore
Identification: IMO number:  9408803
General characteristics
Class and type: chemical tanker
Tonnage: 20,000  DWT [1]
Length: 147 metres [2]
Beam: 24 metres [2]
Crew: 24 [2]

MV Pramoni is a Singapore registered chemical tanker.

Singapore Republic in Southeast Asia

Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island city-state in Southeast Asia. The country is situated one degree north of the equator, at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, with Indonesia's Riau Islands to the south and Peninsular Malaysia to the north. Singapore's territory consists of one main island along with 62 other islets. Since independence, extensive land reclamation has increased its total size by 23%.

Chemical tanker type of tanker ship designed to transport chemicals in bulk

A chemical tanker is a type of tanker ship designed to transport chemicals in bulk. As defined in MARPOL Annex II, chemical tanker means a ship constructed or adapted for carrying in bulk any liquid product listed in chapter 17 of the International Bulk Chemical Code. As well as industrial chemicals and clean petroleum products, such ships also often carry other types of sensitive cargo which require a high standard of tank cleaning, such as palm oil, vegetable oils, tallow, caustic soda, and methanol.

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Ownership

The ship was owned by the Indonesian company Berlian Laju Tanker until 2008, when it was bought by the Norwegian company Platou. [2]

Ragnar Stoud Platou was a Norwegian ship broker.

Hijacking

The Pramoni was hijacked by Somali pirates on 1 January 2010 in the Gulf of Aden in the International Recommended Transit Corridor and, after payment of a ransom, released along with its crew of 24 on 26 February 2010, during which time it was held at Eyl in Somalia. [3] [4] [5] [6] The pirates were returning from a trip to Yemen, where they had taken illegal migrants. [7]

Gulf of Aden A gulf between the Horn of Africa and Yemen in the Arabian Peninsula

The Gulf of Aden, formerly known as the Gulf of Berbera, is a deepwater gulf amidst Yemen to the north, the Arabian Sea and Guardafui Channel to the east, Somalia to the south, and Djibouti to the west. In the northwest, it connects with the Red Sea through the Bab-el-Mandeb strait, and in the southeast, it connects with the Indian Ocean through the Guardafui Channel. To the west, it narrows into the Gulf of Tadjoura, in the Horn of Africa. The Gulf of Aden separates the Arabian peninsula with the Horn of Africa.

The International Recommended Transit Corridor (IRTC) is a navy-patrolled route through the Gulf of Aden, measuring 490 nautical miles (910 km) long and 20 nautical miles (37 km) wide. According to the fourth volume of the handbook Best Management Practices to Deter Piracy off the Coast of Somalia and in the Arabian Sea Area, the current authoritative guide for merchant ships on self-defense against pirates issued and updated by Oil Companies International Marine Forum (OCIMF), it is encouraged that vessels register their voyages through the region with the Maritime Security Centre – Horn of Africa (MSCHOA) as this registration is a key component of the operation of the International Recommended Transit Corridor.

Eyl Town in Puntland, Somalia

Eyl is an ancient port town in the northeastern Nugal province of Somalia in the autonomous Puntland macro-region, it is the center of the Eyl District.

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References

  1. ↑ Palmer, Andrew (2014). The New Pirates: Modern Global Piracy from Somalia to the South China Sea. I.B.Tauris. p. 140. ISBN   9781848856332.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Norsk skip kapret av pirater" [Norwegian ship hijacked by pirates]. NRK (in Nowegian). 3 January 2010.CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  3. ↑ Straziuso, Jason (2 January 2010). "2 Ships Reported Hijacked Off Somali Coast". New York Times . Associated Press . Retrieved 3 January 2010.
  4. ↑ Moore, Michael Scott (21 February 2017). "Inside the Deadly Pirate Corridor Where Migrants Escape to Europe". Bloomberg Businessweek .
  5. ↑ Rothe, D. L.; Collins, V. E. (2011). "Got a band-aid? Political discourse, militarized responses, and the Somalia pirate". Contemporary Justice Review. 14 (3): 329–343. doi:10.1080/10282580.2011.589669.
  6. ↑ Pirate Trails: Tracking the Illicit Financial Flows from Pirate Activities. World Bank Publications. 2013. p. 68. ISBN   9780821399637.
  7. ↑ Napoleoni, Loretta (2016). Merchants of Men: How Jihadists and ISIS Turned Kidnapping and Refugee Trafficking into a Multi-Billion Dollar Business. Seven Stories Press. p. 70. ISBN   9781609807092.
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