MAERSK PAYS RANSOM TO NIGERIAN PIRATES
In an unusual move, A.P. Moller said it has paid money to pirates who had boarded its offshore vessel the “Maersk Shipper” off the coast of Nigeria.
Intruders boarded the ship on April 15. A.P. Moller said its seafarers feared for their lives, and it “decided that a cash payment should be made irrespective of the intruders still being on board the vessel.”
Having received the payment, the intruders left the vessel, A.P. Moller reported.
The Danish group had 16 seafarers on board the offshore vessel, on charter to Shell.