Bloomberg
Friday, January 09, 2009
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Jan. 9 (Bloomberg) -- The Saudi Arabian oil supertanker Sirius Star has been released by the Somali pirates who hijacked it in November in the Indian Ocean, Agence France-Presse said, citing the leader of the pirates, Mohamed Said.“All our people have now left the Sirius Star,” AFP cited Said as saying today in a phone interview from the pirates’ stronghold in the Somali town of Harardhere. “The ship is free, the crew is free.”
The tanker is in the fleet of Saudi Arabia’s state-owned Vela International Ltd. and was carrying 2 million barrels of crude. It was hijacked Nov. 15 about 420 nautical miles (780 kilometers) off Somalia and was carrying 25 crew members from Britain, Poland, Croatia and Saudi Arabia.
An official representing Vela International declined to comment or be identified by name when contacted by Bloomberg News.
SOURCE: Bloomberg,Friday, January 09, 2009