The Russian navy has foiled a pirate attack on one of Mediterranean Shipping Company’s container vessels.
The navy’s press statement said that around 1 pm local time on 25 October, its anti-submarine ship Vice-Admiral Kulakov was patrolling the waters around the Gulf of Guinea when it received a distress signal from the 1,823TEU MSC Lucia.
At the time, the Panama-flagged MSC Lucia was sailing from Lome, Togo to Douala, Cameroon.
A Ka-27PS military helicopter with a marine unit was immediately...
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