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...He pointed out that bulk carriers and tankers traded in a similar way to taxis, travelling wherever in the world customers needed cargo delivered....
...Somali pirates last commandeered a ship on December 14 when a group hijacked the Bulgarian-owned bulk carrier Ruen. That vessel remains off Somalia....
...Another dry bulk carrier, the Sea Champion, faced two missile attacks on Monday in the Gulf of Aden....
...In January, it successfully freed the bulk carrier Lila Norfolk after pirates briefly took control of the ship....
...Hans-Christian Olesen, chief executive of Denmark’s Ultrabulk, which operates 155 dry bulk carriers, expected increased pressure for higher speeds going forward....
...The attack followed a missile strike on Monday on the Gibraltar Eagle, another bulk carrier, in the Gulf of Aden....
...The campaign of attacks by Yemen’s Houthis on commercial ships claimed its first fatalities on Wednesday when a strike on a Barbados-flagged dry bulk carrier in the Gulf of Aden left three seafarers dead...
...That followed Monday’s missile strike on another bulk carrier in the Gulf of Aden....
...Shippers have come to regard facilities in mainland China as a more attractive option than Hong Kong, to which goods manufactured in the delta region need to be trans-shipped by barge, small container ship...
...One vessel hijacked in December remains off Somalia, while pirates briefly seized another bulk carrier the following month before it was freed by the Indian navy....
...The most serious previous assault, on February 19, led to the sinking of the dry bulk carrier Rubymar. Its crew all abandoned ship safely....
...The Baltic Dry index, which indicates the rates for bulk carrier ships, climbed 49 per cent in the year to December. Bulk carriers mostly carry iron ore....
...diversions, he said, manufacturers had been resorting to unconventional means of moving vehicles such as putting them in shipping containers or transporting them in the holds of vessels designed for moving dry bulk...
...The missiles landed harmlessly in the sea, as did those launched last week at the Star Nasia, a carrier for dry bulk commodities....
...Dry bulk carriers such as the Gibraltar Eagle have mostly continued to transit through the Red Sea, however....
...The UK-owned cargo ship Unity Explorer and two other bulk carriers were struck and reported damage but no casualties....
...Including bulk carriers and tankers, the number is far higher....
...On Monday the Houthis made their most damaging strike so far on a commercial ship with an assault on the Lebanese-owned dry bulk carrier, the Rubymar....
...Attacks peaked in March when three mariners were killed after a missile hit the bulk carrier True Confidence....
...It added: “Bulk carriers, manned by innocent seafarers, represent the epitome of non-combatant vessels.”...
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