Sunday, June 03, 2007
The Danica White was on its way to the Kenyan port of Mombasa from Dubai when it was seized by pirates Saturday or late Friday, Jorgen Folmer, a spokesman for Danish shipping company H. Folmer & Co. said.
He said a French naval vessel in the area had confirmed the ship was hijacked but was unable to intervene because it could not enter Somali waters.
``They cannot do anything right now,'' he told The Associated Press by telephone.
He said it wasn't clear exactly where and how the ship was seized but ``we can see that it has been hiijacked of the Somalia coast.''
The company had not been able to reach the crew.
``We don't know if they are safe,'' he said, adding the 200-foot-long freighter was transporting construction materials.
Somali pirates, often trained and heavily armed fighters using speedboats equipped with satellite phones and Global Positioning System equipment, are notoriously active off the coast of their lawless country.
Source: AP, June 03, 2007