Maersk – the world’s largest container shipping company – emphasized that it is in contact with the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, trying to get more information because the cause of detention is still not known .
“Maersk Tigris”, flying the flag of the Marshall Islands, was on Tuesday seized by Iranian Navy and directed to the port of Bandar Abbas. According to a representative of the Iranian organization port ship seized because of unpaid debts.
Also, Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency reported. citing “informed sources” that the reason for the confiscation of the unit was a trade dispute with the administration of Iranian ports. The nature of the dispute was not specified.
The Pentagon reported that the ship was turned back at the height of the Strait of Hormuz after giving warning shots by Iranian patrol boats which have taken the unit deeper into Iranian territorial waters.
A company representative based Rickmers Shipmanagement in Hamburg, which chartered the vessel from Maersk, a Danish television TV2 said that the board had 24 crew members, mostly from Eastern Europe and Asia. The unit overcame a simple trade route from Saudi Arabia to the United Arab Emirates and the company does not know the reasons for her detention by Iran.
” We are in constant contact with the Rickmers Shipmanagement (…) We learned that the crew members are safe and in good, as in these circumstances, moods. I still strive for more information about Maersk Tigris detention + + by the Iranian authorities in international waters ” – Maersk said in a statement, adding that the company is not currently able to determine the reasons why there was a seizure of a ship.
After sending the “Maersk Tigris” SOS signal US forces in the region sent destroyer USS Farragut and reconnaissance aircraft to monitor the situation.
According to Iranian television on board “Maersk Tigris” were sailors from Great Britain, Bulgaria, Romania and Burma. Captain, is a Bulgarian.
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