The Tuvalu-registered 13,000 dwt Hana I tanker was boarded 45 nautical miles south of Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea on January 1 with the ship’s captain and chief engineer kidnapped. “The vessel was observed transiting at 11kn, before rapidly coming to adrift, the vessel then appeared to drift for 80 minutes before going underway. At the time of the incident, the vessel had an estimated 4.7m freeboard,” an update from security consultants Ambrey noted. The attack follows a comparatively quiet six-month period for pirate attacks in the Gulf of Guinea. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1_95_0_1_2'); }); TagsEquatorial Guinea Piracy Seafarers