A Greek bulker with 21 Filipino crew which has been held for six months off Somalia has been freed.

VOC Daisy.

A ransom was paid to free the 47,200-dwt VOC Daisy (built 1998) on Sunday morning, its owner confirmed to TradeWinds.

All the crew are well and were not mistreated during the half-year-long ordeal, Athanasios Glyptis, operations manager at Samartzis Maritime Enterprises, said.

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