The Smyrni is an oil tanker operated under the Liberian flag . The tanker is owned by Pisces Finance in Athens and operated by Dynacom Tankers Management in Athens.
The ship was ordered on November 30, 2006. It was built under construction number H1073 at the Chinese shipyard Jiangsu Rongsheng Heavy Industries. Construction began with the first steel cut on January 6, 2010. The keel was laid on June 7 and the launch on December 27, 2010. The ship was completed on August 17, 2011.
Abduction in the Arabian Sea
Location of the attack
The tanker was hijacked by Somali pirates on May 10, 2012 in the Arabian Sea about 285 nautical miles south-east of the Masira island in Oman . The ship had loaded around 135,000 t of crude oil worth 115 million US dollars and was on its way from a Turkish port to Borneo , Indonesia . On board the ship were 26 seamen , 14 Filipino , eleven Indians and one Romanian . On June 3, 2012, units of the Puntland Marine Police Force tried unsuccessfully to free the ship anchored off the coast of Somalia . There were reports that the tanker was being used by the pirates as a base for attacks on other ships.
The tanker was released in early March 2013 (figures vary between March 8th and March 10th) after the pirates reportedly received a $ 13 million ransom.
Two of the pirates were brought to justice in Germany in 2018. You came to Germany as an asylum seeker . They could be identified on the basis of their fingerprints, which were identical to fingerprints found on board after the ship was released. One of the pirates was sentenced to two and a half years and the other to seven years in prison.
The ship is equipped with fourteen cargo tanks. In the midship area there is a manifold for cargo handling on both sides of the ship . A crane is installed here to take over the hose.
