NATO Shipping Centre has today confirmed that a vessel, the MV Royal Grace, has been successfully pirated off Oman. Reports began surfacing on March 2nd that a vessel had been hijacked in posoition 21.27N-062.37E at 1219 UTC. NATO reports that the owners of the MV Royal Grace received an email today which confirms the hijacking.
The last known position of the MV Royal Grace was 16.34N-059.48E, course 230, transiting towards Somalia. We have no word on crew complement or nationality and await further details.
This article was posted by Neptune Maritime Security via shipping.nato.int. MaritimeSecurity.Asia in cooperation with www.neptunemaritimesecurity.com
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