COPENHAGEN, Denmark – A Danish shipping company says a cargo ship with a Russian crew held for more than two months by Somali pirates has been released after a ransom payment.
Ship owner Clipper Projects says the CEC Future was released Friday after a ransom was paid and dropped by parachute earlier this week.
The ship was hijacked off the Somali coast on Nov. 7 as it was heading to Oman under the escort of a Russian navy vessel.
Clipper Projects Chief Executive Per Gullestrup says all 13 crew members are unharmed and will return home as soon as possible. He declined to specify the size of the ransom.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090116/ap_on_re_eu/piracy
Ship owner Clipper Projects says the CEC Future was released Friday after a ransom was paid and dropped by parachute earlier this week.
The ship was hijacked off the Somali coast on Nov. 7 as it was heading to Oman under the escort of a Russian navy vessel.
Clipper Projects Chief Executive Per Gullestrup says all 13 crew members are unharmed and will return home as soon as possible. He declined to specify the size of the ransom.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090116/ap_on_re_eu/piracy
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