There seems no end to incidents of piracy off Somalia’s coast as a German ship becomes the latest victim.
Thursday 21 August, 2008 looks destined to gain an ignoble reputation as seeing the highest rate of piracy off the war-torn East African country in a single day.
The 9,775-dwt German multi-purpose vessel BBC Trinidad (built 2006) has followed a Japanese tanker and an Iranian bulk-carrier into the clutches of Somali pirates within a matter of hours (click