MV Safmarine Asia

Career
Name: Safmarine Asia
Port of registry: Liberia
Ordered: 1 September 1984
Completed: 1985, lengthened 1989
Identification: IMO number: 8413887
Class overview
General characteristics
Type: container ship
Tonnage: 21,887
Length: 190 meters
Beam: 28 meters
Speed: 17.8 knots
Notes: Safmarine Asia, vesseltracker.com

The MV Safmarine Asia is a ship unsuccessfully attacked by Somali pirates 14 April 2009.[1] A French frigate, the Nivôse, responded to the vessel's distress call, and in the process, found and arrested 11 Somali pirates.[2] There are plans to try them for piracy in Kenya.[3] They were landed at Mombasa for trial in Kenya on 22 April 2009.[4]

References

  1. ^ "New wave of Somali pirate attacks". BBC. 14 April 2009. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7997610.stm. Retrieved 2009-04-14. 
  2. ^ Otterman, Sharon; Mark McDonald (2009-04-15). "11 Pirates Seized in Raid by French Navy". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/16/world/africa/16somalia.html?hp. Retrieved 15 April 2009. 
  3. ^ "Kenya 'will try Somali pirates". BBC. 2009-04-16. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8003031.stm. Retrieved 2009-04-16. 
  4. ^ "French Deliver 11 Piracy Suspects". BBC. 22 April 2009. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8012339.stm. Retrieved 22 April 2009.