The incident occurred in the Indian Ocean off the Yemeni coast near the entrance to the Red Sea.
2 January 11 12:38, Globes' correspondent“IDF Radio" (Galei Zahal) reports that Somali pirates this morning failed to seize a Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd. ship en route from India to Israel. The incident occurred in the Indian Ocean off the Yemeni coast near the entrance to the Red Sea.
The ship's captain spotted the pirate ship and ordered an increase in speed, and outran the attackers.
The ship is carrying a cargo of electronic equipment and building materials. There were no casualties in the incident, and the ship is continuing on its way.
"Zim" company ship carrying goods and trying to make its way back to Israel avoids seizure attempt by pirates.
An attempted pirate attack on a cargo vessel, belonging to Israeli shipping company Zim, sailing in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Yemen, was thwarted early Sunday morning. Pirates who approached the Zim Asia from behind were detected by the ship’s crew and the captain ordered the ship to speed up avoiding capture by the pirates, and preventing damage to life and property.
The Zim Asia, sailing under a Liberian flag, was making its way from the Far East to Israel carrying a large shipment containing electrical equipment and construction supplies.
According to the International Maritime Bureau, a division of the International Chamber Of Commerce that tracks pirate attacks, Somali pirates are responsible for roughly half of all piracy incidents on the world’s seas and operate as far away from Somalia as Bangladesh, the Singapore Straits and the South China Sea.
According to the most recent statistics from the International Maritime Organization, between July 2002 and December 2010 there have been a total of 5,667 acts of piracy and armed robbery against ships worldwide.
Zim Asia, Built: 1996, WxB 254 m X 32 m DWT: 45850 t, Speed Max/avg:19.2 / 17.9 knots Flag: Liberia [LR] IMO: 9113654, MMSI: 636091516