{"id":1611373,"date":"2025-11-06T13:25:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T18:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1611373"},"modified":"2025-11-06T13:25:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T18:25:00","slug":"pirates-attack-tanker-off-somalia-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/pirates-attack-tanker-off-somalia-coast\/1611373\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates Attack Tanker Off\u00a0Somalia Coast\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Pirates Attack Tanker Off\u00a0Somalia Coast\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>Maritime journal Lloyd&#8217;s List reported early Thursday that the Malta-flagged tanker Hellas Aphrodite was boarded by suspected pirates off the Somali coast. This maritime incident comes just days after another attempted hijacking of a commercial vessel in the region.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pirates have boarded Malta-flagged Hellas Aphrodite, a product tanker, off the Somali coast just days after a near miss in the same region <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PEeuTbIrUO\">pic.twitter.com\/PEeuTbIrUO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lloyd&#8217;s List (@LloydsList) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LloydsList\/status\/1986406605294805454?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 6, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) confirmed a small vessel &#8220;fired small arms and RPGs&#8221; and &#8220;unauthorised personnel&#8221; boarded the tanker hauling gasoline about 560 nautical miles off the\u00a0southeast of Eyl, Somalia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/G5DvSfLXkAAQSKQ.png?itok=yAij6DcC\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lloyd&#8217;s List noted, &#8220;An\u00a0unsuccessful attempt to board a Stolt-Nielsen tanker off Somalia on Monday is unlikely to be an isolated incident with growing evidence of a <strong>resurgent piracy threat building with links to al-Shabaab and the Houthis<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lloyd&#8217;s List reported that an unsuccessful attempt to board a Stolt-Nielsen tanker off Somalia on Monday is unlikely to be an isolated incident with growing evidence of a resurgent piracy threat building with links to al-Shabaab and the Houthis <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aFFLRZqyyn\">https:\/\/t.co\/aFFLRZqyyn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lloyd&#8217;s List (@LloydsList) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LloydsList\/status\/1986407088931938315?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 6, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Greek news outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.enikos.gr\/international\/somalia-peirateia-sto-ellinoktito-tanker-hellas-aphrodite-i-anakoinosi-tis-etaireias\/2471943\/\">Enikos<\/a> reported that Latsco Marine Management, which operates the Hellas Aphrodite, confirmed all 24 crew members are safe and accounted for. The situation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Thu, 11\/06\/2025 &#8211; 08:25<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/pirates-attack-tanker-somalia-coast\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/pirates-attack-tanker-somalia-coast<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pirates Attack Tanker Off\u00a0Somalia Coast\u00a0 Maritime journal Lloyd&#8217;s List reported early Thursday that the Malta-flagged tanker Hellas Aphrodite was boarded by suspected pirates off the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1611374,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1611373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbimBl-6LbT","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/11\/G5DvSfLXkAAQSKQ-xYXZH0.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1611373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1611374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1611373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1611373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1611373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}