Pirates release Clipper ship
After having been hijacked for 68 days and nights, the Danish cargo ship CEC Future has been released. The ship is owned by the Danish shipping company Clipper. Ship and crew is safe and is now in international waters heading towards Oman. An undisclosed ransom has been paid to the Somali pirates.
The shipping company reached agreement with the pirates on a ransom, which immediately was flown to the ship by a small propeller airplane. The money was dropped on the Danish cargo ship with a parachute, for the pirates to get them.
A battery-driven note counter was also part of the package.
"One and a half day passed before they counted the money and agreed on how to split it", says Per Gullestrup, CEO of the shipping company Clipper, in an interview with TV2 News.
Afterwards the ship sailed through the Strait of Aden and dropped off its hijackers on the way.
Per Gullestrup says to TV2 News that the thirteen crew members are well considering the circumstances.
A crisis team will be ready to take of them when they go ashore in Salala in Oman.
CEC Future was hijacked on the 7th of November last year in the Aden Bay, where the ship was on its way from the Middle East to Asia.
The Danish run cargo ship is sailing under the flag of Bahamas. The crew consists of eleven Russians, one Georgian and an Estonian.
Source: TV" News and Borsen.dk