{"id":22005,"date":"2020-11-23T23:23:10","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T20:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/dryad-3-kidnapped-from-stelios-k-bunkering-vessel\/22005\/"},"modified":"2020-11-23T23:23:10","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T20:23:10","slug":"dryad-3-kidnapped-from-stelios-k-bunkering-vessel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/dryad-3-kidnapped-from-stelios-k-bunkering-vessel\/22005\/","title":{"rendered":"Dryad: 3 Kidnapped from Stelios K bunkering vessel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-intro-font-size\">Three people have been kidnapped from the Togo-flagged bunkering vessel Stelios K which was boarded last week by a group of pirates while en route to Lagos.<\/p>\n<p> As Offshore Energy &#8211; Green Marine reported, the shipowner lost contact with the vessel on November 17 resulting in authorities seeking to establish the vessel\u2019s location and make contact with the crew.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"block block-related-article\">\n<div class=\"card-rich \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.offshore-energy.biz\/dryad-global-bunkering-vessel-hijacked-talks-underway-to-release-ship-and-its-crew\/\" class=\"card__lazyload card-rich__image\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/cdn.offshorewind.biz\/file\/sites\/6\/2020\/11\/19163323\/piracy.jpg')\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"card-rich__element card-rich__time-ago\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Posted:<\/span> 4 days ago\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"card-rich__content\">\n<div class=\"card-rich__partner-label\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<h3 class=\"card-rich__title\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.offshore-energy.biz\/dryad-global-bunkering-vessel-hijacked-talks-underway-to-release-ship-and-its-crew\/\" class=\"card-rich__link\" aria-label=\"Read more about: Dryad Global: Bunkering vessel hijacked, talks underway to release ship and its crew\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tDryad Global: Bunkering vessel hijacked, talks underway to release ship and its crew<br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<div class=\"card-rich__element card-rich__meta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Categories:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"card-category-list no-list\">\n<li class=\"card-category-list__item\">Vessels<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<div class=\"card__element card-rich__time-ago\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Posted:<\/span> 4 days ago\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Shortly after the attack, the local authorities managed to get in contact with the hijackers and started negotiating the release of the vessel and the crew. Details of the negotiations remain undisclosed.<\/p>\n<p>According to the latest update from UK-based maritime security firm Dryad Global, pirates have now escaped and left the vessel at\u00a0around 180\/75 nautical miles off Lagos Nigeria.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>This is the 23rd kidnapping incident in the Gulf of Guinea in 2020, with a total of 118 persons kidnapped, Dryad Global said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The Gulf of Guinea HRA was raised to a critical risk rating following a sharp increase in incidents in the past week, including 2 successful kidnappings within 3 days. Vessels are advised to exercise heightened caution in this region,&#8221;<\/em> Dryad Global informed.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.offshore-energy.biz\/dryad-3-kidnapped-from-stelios-k-bunkering-vessel\/\">Dryad: 3 Kidnapped from Stelios K bunkering vessel<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.offshore-energy.biz\">Offshore Energy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>world maritime news<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three people have been kidnapped from the Togo-flagged bunkering vessel Stelios K which was boarded last week by a group of pirates while en route to Lagos. As Offshore Energy &#8211; Green Marine reported, the shipowner lost contact with the vessel on November 17 resulting in authorities seeking to establish the vessel\u2019s location and make &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[1594,896,1261,13656,549],"class_list":["post-22005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-bunkering","tag-dryad","tag-kidnapped","tag-stelios","tag-vessel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/22006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}