Moscow University
 The Moscow University in Rotterdam
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The Seager , 2018. Moscow University ( Russian Московский университет / Moskovsky uniwersitet to German " Moscow University ") is an oil tanker of the shipping company Noworossijskoje Morskoje Parochodstwo, Novoship from the Russian Black Sea port city of Novorossiysk and drives under Liberian flag. The ship was built in 1998 by NKK Corporation in the Japanese port city of Tsu and handed over to the owner on March 26, 1999.
On May 5, 2010 at 4:00 a.m. UTC , the tanker was hijacked by Somali pirates 350 nautical miles east of the Yemeni island of Socotra en route from Sudan to China with 86,000 tons of crude oil and 23 Russian crew members on board . The raid came after the international patrol, which ensures the safety of the sea routes in the Gulf of Aden , led Moscow University out of the dangerous zone. A spokesman for the EU mission Atalanta (EU NAVFOR Somalia) said that the team had a few hours trying to escape the pirates and it sold more emergency calls. The crew managed to shut down the engines and hide in the radar room.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev ordered the submarine hunter Marshal Shaposhnikov , which is cruising in the region , to set course for Moscow University . Upon arrival at the position of the tanker, an on- board helicopter of the destroyer carried out a reconnaissance flight to the hijacked tanker and shot at the pirates. At dawn on May 6, 2010 at 5:13 a.m. Moscow time, three Russian Navy assault teams, each with six to eight men , approached the tanker with speedboats. The Marshal Shaposhnikov gave warning shots from machine guns and a cannon. A pirate was killed in a brief skirmish and ten pirates were arrested. The crew was not harmed. At 5:35 a.m. Moscow time, the liberation action was over. Naval units from NATO and the EU also took part in the liberation . A US helicopter scouted the situation on board.
The ten pirates, presumably from Somalia, were released because of a lack of international legal bases and the impossibility of determining the nationality of the pirates. They were placed in one of the boats on which they attacked the tanker without weapons or navigation equipment. A spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry said on May 11, 2010 that the men had not reached the bank and that all the pirates were dead.
On December 1, 2018, the ship was initially renamed University and on January 1, 2019 PSD Sedowa , before being transferred to the Panamanian company Nautical Wonder Limited on January 18, 2019. On March 1, 2020, the tanker was renamed Seager and on March 23, 2020, it was taken over by Seager Shipping Incorporated in Panama, which is part of the Janelle Ship Management in Mumbai.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Moscow University TradeWinds.no Shipping Index (accessed May 7, 2010)
- ↑ (May 6, 2010) Novoship maintains contact with the Russian Navy ( Memento of May 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Press release, Novoship, Novorossiysk Shipping Company (accessed May 7, 2010)
- ↑ no author information (May 5, 2010) Pirates hijack Russian oil tankers Der Spiegel (accessed May 8, 2010)
- ↑ no author information (May 6, 2010) Russian Navy frees tankers off Somalia Der Tagesspiegel (accessed May 7, 2010)
- ↑ no author details (May 6, 2010) Pirates defeated in just 22 minutes - new details on the liberation of the Russian tanker RIA Novosti (accessed May 7, 2010)
- ↑ IHS Fairplay: Russians kill pirate in rescue ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. EU Naval Force (EU NAVFOR) Somalia, Maritime Security Center - Horn of Africa (MSCHOA) (accessed May 8, 2010)
- ↑ No author details (May 8, 2010) Pirates had to be released due to loopholes RIA Novosti (accessed May 8, 2010)
- ↑ no author information (May 7, 2010) Russia does not bring pirates to justice Stern (accessed May 8, 2010)
- ↑ (May 11, 2010) Pirates dead after attack on Russian tanker Russia-Aktuell.ru (accessed May 13, 2010)
- ↑ Data from Equasis , accessed August 29, 2020.
