Name Safmarine Asia Ordered 1 September 1984 Identification IMO number 8413887 Length 190 m | Port of registry Liberia Completed 1985, lengthened 1989 Type container ship Beam 28 m | |
The MV Safmarine Asia is a ship that was unsuccessfully attacked by Somali pirates 14 April 2009. A French frigate, the Nivôse, responded to the vessel's distress call, and in the process, found and arrested 11 Somali pirates. There are plans to try them for piracy in Kenya. They were landed at Mombasa for trial in Kenya on 22 April 2009.
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