ROSALIA D’AMATO: Giuseppe D'Amato's bulker

ROSALIA D’AMATO Bulk Carrier , 74,500 dwt, Italian flagged to Bandar Imam Khomeini (Iran) from Paranagua (Brazil) hijacked approximately 350NM South East of Salalah, Oman, in the Indian Ocean on 21 April.

It was attacked by a single skiff. Coalition warships had communications with the vessel and were told: ‘pirates onboard stay away’.


Officials with Perseveranza, the company that owns the ship, say they have been in contact with the ship's captain and report that all crew members are well.

Attacked and seized by pirates last night, right in the Arabian Sea, the Italian ship "Rosalia D'Amato." The bulk carrier is part owner Angelo D'Amato, owner of "Perseverance Navigation" and nephew of the owner of "Brothers D'Amato." . A crew of 22 aboard, including 6 Italians.Two are in Sicily, including the commander Orazio Lanza, three bells, two of Ischia, one of Vico Equense, and the first officer of Meta di Sorrento native who lives in Belgium.. The facts, as you can rebuild, occurred around 4 am, Italian time, when the boat - playing live in Brazil and Iran - was in the Arabian Sea about 400 miles off the coast of Oman. Two small boats approached on board with the pirates who have seized the Italian ship. . Everything would be done without firing with no consequences for the crew. [rough translation from Google]

In a prudent commercial management, all the owned vessels are
time chartered for long periods to important Italian and International Groups.

The Bulk carriers are chartered to Cosco , Armada Group , Cargill , North China Shipping, and others primary operators.



Giuseppe D'Amato | The President

· Perseveranza SpA is a Company owned by Giuseppe D'Amato.

Giuseppe D'Amato is the leader of a family of Shipowners that since four
generations is present in the world shipping community .

Giuseppe D'Amato is unanimously recognized as one of the most prestigious
entrepreneurs in the Italian Shipowners community.

He has been Vice President of Confitarma, the Italian Shipowners
Association, for six years; he has been Board Member of the Banca di Credito
Popolare di Torre del Greco, the biggest independent regional bank in
Southern Italy; he has been Board Member of UMS Generali Marine SpA, the
biggest Italian Insurance Company specialised in Maritime Hull and Machinery
Risks, that today is a branch of Assicurazioni Generali for transportation; he has just been awarded an honorary degree in Shipping Business at the
"Università Parthenope" in Naples.

Susan K: AG-flagged Ostfriesland ship hijacked

3,642 gt SUSAN K, IMO 9344370, Antigua & Barbuda flagged, to Port Sudan (Sudan) from Mumbai (India) boarded by 10 pirates, hijacked 200 nm NE of Salalah, Oman; 35 nautical miles from the Omani coastline.although exact details of the attack are not known at this time. managed by Nimmrich & Prahm Bereederung of Leer, Ostfriesland. Exname is Sonja. Launch Name was Sonja. Call Sign V2CR8, IMO Number 9344370.


NIMMRICH & PRAHM BEREEDERUNG GMBH & CO. KG
shareholders 3




A tax-based partnership such as the KG in Germany, A Kommanditgesellschaft (abbreviated "KG") is the German name for a limited partnership business entity and is used in German, Austrian and some other European legal systems. In the KG there are general partners (Komplementär) with unlimited liability and limited partners (Kommanditisten) whose liability is restricted to their fixed contributions to the partnership. Although a partnership itself is not a legal entity, it may acquire rights and incur liabilities, acquire title to real estate and sue or be sued.

Pohjanmaa: Finns nab pirate support ship

The minelayer Pohjanmaa, the flagship of the Finnish Navy, has apparently captured a support vessel containing suspected pirates.
The seizure of the vessel took place early on Wednesday morning, some 500 kilometres south-east from Salalah in Oman.
The suspected pirates were aboard a vessel that was towing two smaller boats behind it.
The vessel attempted to escape, at which point the Pohjanmaa fired a volley of warning shots to deter the crew.
The vessel was found to contain eighteen persons believed to be pirates.
A detachment from the Pohjanmaa found material on the captured vessel that is in keeping with that used in piracy on the high seas. Other items had apparently been thrown overboard during the initial chase. No information was given of what particular objects were discovered, but it is thought likely they were weapons. The minelayer remains on station, attempting to determine the nature of the crew-members.
[photo] Units from the FNS Pohjanmaa carrying out inspection of a suspicious craft in February.

Dover: Worldwide geared bulk carrier hijacked

DOVER ex VORIOS IPIROS HELLAS hijacked 260 nm NE of Salalah bound for Saleef, Yemen from Port Quasim, Pakistan
7433634 DOVER H8RV Bulker 38097 1981 Panama
Ex: VORIOS IPIROS HELLAS
IMO: 7433634
MMSI: 353929000
Callsign: H8RV
Flag: Panama

Category: Bulk Carrier
manager/owner Worldwide Shipmanagement, SA Athens, Greece



ships that were refused access to Community ports
Pursuant to Article 7b of Directive 95/21/EC of 19 June 1995 on Port State Control

7/07/2005 07/03/2006 The Netherlands
7433634
DOVER
ex VORIOS IPIROS HELLAS
Panama Medium
Panama Bulk carrier
07/07/2005
02/09/2004
05/09/2003
The Netherlands
Russian Fed.
The Netherlands

Samho Jewelry: the captured piratesand corpses

Seok Hae-gyun, the ship’s 58-year-old captain, was rushed to Oman’s Port of Salalah and had a five-hour operation shortly after Jan. 21's rescue. Seok was shot several times by a pirate believed to be the leader when special forces began the rescue. The shooter was captured by the Korean military.Eight pirates were killed and five captured. Three special forces soldiers were also wounded during the mission.
The Samho Jewelry, escorted by the 4,500-ton Navy destroyer Choi Young, sailed to the Muscat, Oman’s capital. Although the ships are close to their destination, they are to enter the port on January 27, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said, as more time is needed to discuss how to handle the captured pirates and the corpses of those killed during the rescue. Despite the risks involved, Seok secretly mixed water with engine oil to stop its engines, the military said, which significantly slowed the ship. He also changed the ship’s course to ensure it remained in international waters as long as possible to assist the rescue operation. Joongang

KHALED MUHIEDDINE K: Togo-flag 1981 bulker

Togo-flagged and owned by Dana Maritime in Syria and managed by Damak Maritime Co, bulk carrier was hijacked on January 21 around 330 nautical miles southeast of the port of Salalah, Oman. Master reported being fired upon with small arms and seeing pirates on board. All contact with the vessel was then lost. Type Partnership, Company Size: 7 employees

8105650 KHALED MUHIEDDINE K 5VAI3 Bulker 24022 1981 Togo

(ex ROYAL CROWN, JOHNNY L, JOHNNY L., JOHN L., FLORA)
GT:14383
DWT:24022
LOA:160,00 m
Breadth:24,6 m
Draught:9,80 m
Flag:Togo

CFO
Damak Maritime Co. (Maritime industry) January 2010 — Present (1 year 1 month)
Owner Scout Gate (Computer Networking industry) December 2006 — Present

Hédi DAMAK Title retired manager chez Damak Maritime Co.
Demographic info
Tunisia | Maritime
K.Damak Shipping CO. SA founded in 1981 by the late Kamel DAMAK, is now one of the most reliable shipping companies in TUNISIA thanks to the wide range of services it is offering and due to the fact that our main collaborators are shareholders in the company. Our modern infrastructures, our motivated and innovative team and our first class correspondents are enabling us to take over the whole process of conveying cargoes through the different stages involved.

CPO China: Australian Marines board tanker

Jan. 4: Australian forces from the frigate HMAS Melbourne board the British-flagged tanker CPO China in the Arabian Sea, approximately 365 nautical miles southeast of Salalah in Oman after responding to a distress call. earlier

Blida: load of CTI clinker hijacked

Blida, 20,586 ton, Bulk Carrier, to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania from Salalah,Oman hijacked 150 nautical miles South East of Salalah

7705635 BLIDA 7THO Bulker 20586 1978 Algeria

BUILDER Kanasashi Heavy Industries
MANAGER Sekur Holdings
OWNER Sntm Cnan

CTI Group Inc. markets cement and clinker for the construction industry. The company also involves in the product handling, land and sea transportation, terminal construction and operation, ship owning and operating, ship management, and chartering activities. CTI Group Inc. was founded in 1990 and is based in Amman, Jordan with offices in the Grand Caymans, Jordan, Greece, the United Arab Emirates, the United States, Malaysia, Egypt, and the Philippines.Sunshine Cement Inc.Sekur Holding Inc.Cement Traders Egypt
Sekur Holdings Inc. The company was established in 2001 as an in-house ship management company that handles all of the group's vessels through a professional and experienced staff.

Shipping is a government monopoly run by the Algerian state concern, the National Corporation for Maritime Transport and the Algerian National Navigation Company (Société Nationale de Transports Maritimes et Compagnie Nationale Algérienne de Navigation--SNTM-CNAN). SNTM-CNAN started with nine vessels in 1971; . The CNAN group is operating a fleet of 23 vessels. The fleet consists of general cargo vessels, roro vessels, bulk carriers and passenger / ferry vessels. An extensive fleet renewal plan is carried out between 2005 and 2010, and includes the purchase of 6 con/ro vessels of 8000 tons dwt, 4 handy size bulk carriers of 30.000 tons dwt, and 2 container vessels of 8000 tons dwt with a capacity of 600 teu’s.

Charles Tortora, CEO Navitrans, which owns 40% of Navimed
FRANCE / ALGERIA. Is a SAS based Navimed a month ago by three shipping agents, each bordering an area of the Mediterranean: Navitrans for the French side for Spain Transcoma Perioli and Dario, the Italian side. The Genoese shipping agent, who holds a third of the capital Navimed is also a shareholder CNAN Med. There are two years ago, the Algerian state opened 49% stake in the group Med CNAN Eligio Fontana.

Navitrans for this stake (40%) is only an extension of a partnership initiated three years ago with CNAN and Hoegh Autoliners with the launch of a common ship on service Ro Ro Express "on on the transport of used cars basically.

For clients of Group CNAN little change, the entire staff of the public agency, or 17 people, has been overtaken by Navimed. The service should still gain in quality, according to the three partners.



Name / Ex Name: MV BLIDA
Flag: ALGERIA
Port of Registry : ALGERIA
Type : BULK CARRIER
Class :
GL
Built : 1978, JAPAN
Summer Deadweight / Draft 20,586 DWT ON 9.918M SSW
GRT / NRT 12,829 / 7,745
LBP 90.50 M
Beam [B] 22.80M / 32.07
Depth Moulded 7.05 M
Hatch Covers FAREAST MACGREGOR [SINGLE PULL TYPE]
Holds / Hatches 5 / 5
Total Cargo Holds Capacity: 25,435.30 CBM
Hold No. 1: 2,859.3
Hold No. 2: 6,679.7 CBM
Hold No. 3: 4,470.8 CBM
Hold No. 4: 6,882.3 CBM
Hold No. 5: 4,543.3 CBM
Cranes 4 X 15MT

YUAN XIANG : Hongyuan geared East of Salalah

YUAN XIANG hijacked 12 Nov 0701 UTC
Posn: 18 02.55N – 066 03.39E (IMB) Around 680nm East of Salalah, Oman (Off Somalia)
IMO:7609192, Flag:Panama, General Cargo Ship
Owner: HONGAN SHIPPING CO LTD, CHINA
Manager: HONGYUAN MARINE CO LTD, CHINA

89 TACNA III - 90 MANCHINCHI BRIDGE - 92 CHELSEA BRIDGE - 95 APACHE BELLE - 96 CHELSEA BRIDGE - 02 DONG HUA MEN



　　Since the foundation of our company, our business has been developing in a great speed. Especially in crew dispatch service, we have achieved a considerable scale. On the basis of our advantageous shipping talents, we managed to extend our business to ship management, providing management service on security system, marine and equipment affairs to ships of domestic and international routes, supplying spare parts, ship stores. Our advantage is the combination of ship management and crew dispatch which ensures our high-level ship management.

　　We are authorized to issue certificate of sea barer and seaman's book. So we can issue the certificate for crew who meets the standards of the marine bureau. We are also endowed with right to sign the contract with domestic and foreign ship owners concerning crew dispatch. We have the management qualification permitted by the Ministry of Communications of PRC, and Tianjin Communication Committee.

Go Trader: Crew stow away on Lendoudis bulker

Pirates managed to board the Malta-flagged MV GO TRADER from one skiff approximately 280 nautical miles (520 kilometres) south east from Salalah, Oman On the morning of 30 October 2010,
;however, after a couple of hours they eventually abandoned it, after having been unable to get control over the crew who had locked themselves in the ship’s “citadel”.


9108116 GO TRADER 9HML8 Bulker 45693 1996 Malta
Call Sign : 9HML8
MMSI : 256153000
Gross tonnage : 26062
DWT : 45693
Year of build : 1996
Ex Name: Talisman
Flag : Malta
Ship manager: EVALEND SHIPPING CO SA incorporated as a private limited company in Panama in April 1983.
Owner, Manager, 21 Filellinon & Souri str. 10557 Athens Greece Tel.: 210 3318019. Kriton Lendoudis, Managing Director here

VOC Daisy: Ransom paid by Greek Security

Panama-flagged VOC DAISY released from Garacad from under pirate control is on its way to Salalah in Oman, said JP Samartzis Maritime Enterprises's CEO George Shinitis. The Geared bulker has been free since at least Saturday following the delivery of a ransom "by a vessel believed to belong to a Greek security company operating in the area with two ships." more read

Maybe London-based Aegis Maritime Services?

VOC DAISY: Samartzis Geared Bulker hijacked

VOC Daisy IMO: 9154555
Geared Bulk Carrier - They have cranes, derricks or conveyors that allow them to load or discharge cargo in ports without shore-based equipment.
Ex: Golden Daisy (2000)
DWT: 47,183
LOA: 185.73
Built: 1998. Oshima Shipbuilding Co Ltd
Flag: Panama

On the morning of 21 April 2010, the Panamanian Flagged (Liberian owned) M/V VOC DAISY, a bulk carrier of 47,183 dead weight tonnes, was hijacked in the Gulf of Aden, 190 nautical miles East South East of Salalah, Oman.

At the time of the attack, the John Samartzis MV VOC DAISY, owned by Middleburg Properties Ltd, Liberia, beneficial and operated by J.P. Samartzis Maritime Enterprises Co SA (stated hereafter as JPS) incorporated as a private limited company in Panama., was heading west from Ruwais, U.A.E, making for the eastern rendezvous point of the International Recommended Transit Corridor (IRTC), for onward transit through the Suez Canal. She was 280 miles from the IRTC when she was hijacked.

MV VOC DAISY was registered with Maritime Security Centre Horn Of Africa (MSCHOA) and was able to raise the alarm before the four armed pirates, carrying three AK47s and one RPG, stormed on board and cut their lines of communication.

Rising Sun: rescuers McFaul and Al Sharquiyah

Near Salalah, Oman, two visit, board, search and seizure (VBSS) teams deployed in rigid hull inflatable boats (RHIB), after pirates agreed to a compliant boarding the dhow, took control of the Faize Osamani with 10 suspected pirates and rescued eight crew members . The suspected pirates were transferred to the destroyer Carney until they can be transferred to a state willing to accept the pirates for prosecution.

Marshall-Islands flag tanker Rising Sun, IMO .8607816, broadcast that pirates were firing small arms and rocket-propelled grenades. USS McFaul (DDG-74), joined by Omani warship Al Sharquiyah (B 11), responded. The tanker has arrived and its destination, Kandla Gulf of Kutch.

Maltese-flagged Ariana crew replaced

The Ariana ship crew, released from the pirate captivity, went ashore at the Oman port Salalah. Sailors arrived in the port who will replace the Ariana crew. The new crew came aboard the Ariana ship and accepted the ship,

Ariana: docking at Salalah Oman

The Ariana, freed by pirates after a ransom was paid, and which then sailed over 800 miles from its place of capture, anchored at a roadstead at the Omani port of Salalah on Jan. 3, 2010. Currently, the ship is undergoing permit registration procedures in order to enter the Omani port. Alloceans Shipping Co Ltd (Greece) ,the company operating the vessel had paid a ransom of $2.8 million. Lomar, a subsidiary of the Libra Group, recently announced the acquisition of 26 modern ships belonging to Allocean, The purchase of the shares of Allocean Ltd and the Allocean Charters group of companies, both subsidiaries of Allco Finance Group, which entered administration and receivership in November last year. Based in New York, George Logothetis, age 34, has principal executive responsibility for the Libra Group. Lomar Shipping is the Logothetis family's London based shipping company. Alloceans Shipping Co Ltd was incorporated as a private limited company in Panama in 1971. Ariana is a Maltese-flagged ship.