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| Somali pirates hijack Panamanian-flagged vessel with 31 crew |
| 2010-11-12 |
| (Xinhua)-- Somali pirates have hijacked Panamanian-flagged vessel in the Somali basin, European Union anti- piracy force said on Thursday. EU Naval Force front man Per Klingvall said the MV Hanniball II was seized early Thursday from Malaysia to Suez with 31 crew members. Klingvall said the 24,105 tonne chemical tanker was carrying vegetable oils from Pasir Gudang to Suez at the time. "The master of the vessel reported that he had been attacked and boarded by pirates in an area some 860 nautical miles East of The Horn of Africa which is considerably closer to India than it is to Somalia," he said. The MV Hannibal II has a total of 31 crew on board. This number consists of 23 Tunisians, 4 Filipinos, 1 Croatian, 1 Georgian, 1 Russian and 1 Moroccan. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Vegetable oil counts as a "chemical"? Per Mr. Wife, the (among other things) chemical engineer: Everything is a chemical. Like so many other things, vegetable oil is a complex mixture of hydrocarbons, ranging C8 to C22, with varying degrees of unsaturation (or saturation, depending on one's perspective -- tw). Addition from tw: As a liquid, vegetable oil is yet another chemical mixture transported in tanker ships by sea and tanker trucks on land. It's made into cookies, used to fry potato chips, or bottled for the grocery store, but there's no point in bottling upfront for the first two and all the other commercial uses, which is where most of it goes. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-11-12 22:01 |
| #2 I'm sure the Panamanian navy is on their way to help their flagged ship... |
| Posted by: Yosemite Sam 2010-11-12 11:49 |
| #1 Vegetable oil counts as a "chemical"? |
| Posted by: American Delight 2010-11-12 11:33 |