MV Safmarine Asia

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History
Name: Safmarine Asia
Port of registry: Liberia
Ordered: 1 September 1984
Completed: 1985, lengthened 1989
Identification: IMO number: 8413887
General characteristics
Type: container ship
Tonnage: 21,887[clarification needed]
Length: 190 meters
Beam: 28 meters
Speed: 17.8 knots (33.0 km/h; 20.5 mph)
Notes: Safmarine Asia, vesseltracker.com

The MV Safmarine Asia is a ship that was unsuccessfully attacked by Somali pirates 14 April 2009.[1] A French frigate, the Nivôse, responded to the vessel's distress call, and in the process, found and arrested 11 Somali pirates.[2] There are plans to try them for piracy in Kenya.[3] They were landed at Mombasa for trial in Kenya on 22 April 2009.[4]


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