Armed pirates briefly seized the master and second engineer of a Turkish tanker in a failed cargo theft bid off West Africa last week which has only now come to light.
Some crew members of the 3,165-dwt Duzgit Venture suffered minor injuries during the one-and-a-half day ordeal which began off Benin on Thursday and ended off Nigeria, TradeWinds has learned.
The incident involving the Malta-flagged chemical tanker is the latest in a string of successful and aborted attempts by bandits in the region to illegally lighter ships’ cargoes.
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