The Greek owners of the MV Titan have announced its release today along with 24 crewmen. Hijacked on March 19, the ship is now en route to Korea. (AP, 04/15/09)
This is a project preliminary to the publication of the Somali Piracy Yearbook 2009 on 1/21/09 which follows the Somali Piracy Yearbook 2008 available from Amazon.
This blog has two kinds of entries, labeled INCIDENT and COMMENT. In the case of INCIDENT entries, the time/date stamp is the date of the incident not the date of posting. In the case of COMMENT entries, the time/date info is as of posting.