Frontline will be counting the relatively small cost of having had pirates board one of its suezmaxes at the weekend, but it could have been a whole lot worse.
There were real fears that the 150,000-dwt Front Alfa (built 1993) had actually been hijacked in what would have been a first for the John Fredriksen-controlled company in Somali waters.
The tanker giant has seen a small number of its ships have light brushes with pirates in the region, but none this year and certainly nothing like what happened the Marshall Islands-flagged tanker in the Gulf of Aden on Sunday.
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