At 17 o'clock yesterday there was a pirate attack conducted against a cargo ship flying the Italian flag in writing to the International Registry held at the Port of Genoa and operated by crew of mostly Italian.
This is the ship Jolly Quartz ro-ro container shipping company Ignazio Messina & C SpA of Genoa.
The freighter was en route to Port Said in Egypt.
The pirate attack fortunately was rejected by the private security team embarked aboard the ship. The Jolly Quartz was sailing off the coast of Somalia when it was approached by three skiffs that have attempted a collision.
The reaction of the security team was immediate. The security contractor who immediately opened fire on the small boats that pirates were approaching menacingly at the Italian freighter.
The raiders of the sea they realized that the ship was Italian defense have desisted from their purpose and have moved away quickly.
The commander of the Jolly Quartz immediately implemented all procedures provided for in the event of a pirate attack.
Talking to the attack to the International Maritime Bureau, IMB, which is the center to which all are reported pirate attacks in the world. IMB communication is then immediately sent to the local police forces that require assistenzaai international military patrol in the area. On site there has been a Japanese military helicopter has scoured the area looking in vain Somali pirates who now had vanished.
The alarm is finally back at 19 pm local. The ship is the last of four cargo vessels flying the Italian flag with a capacity of 3,900 TEUs, 6,350 linear meters of rolling cargo, built in the Korean shipyard Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, the other three being the Jolly Diamond, Pearl, and the Jolly Jolly crystal.
What happened shows that theoff the coast of the Horn of Africa 'work' of the predator of the sea has become much more difficult and risky than in the past but has not ceased altogether as many want to hear. Commercial vessels are no longer easy prey like a long time since almost all are now guarded by armed security team on board.
So far no defense ship was captured. Although the phenomenon of maritime piracy is no longer the levels achieved until 2011 when it registered the seizure of a ship on the day the level of risk is still considered high. Until the raiders of the sea made by the master was hard not to run into a pirate skiff and having to engage in a 'race' to escape his attack.
Today it is not so, but it is said that the risk of being attacked is no longer there and what happened to the Jolly Quartz demonstrates this . In the Somali Basin and Indian Ocean, there are some real assault groups that roam far and wide across the sea in search of a possible prey. A curiosity the security team on board the Italian ship was staffed by Triskel of Risk Management.
This is the first private Italian company that has obtained permission to embark on your own personal Italian ships with features anti pirates. With the DM 266/2012 has been regulated the use of armed private security guards on board the Italian merchant ships against piracy completing the system outlined by Law 130/2011.
On March 1 was instead attacked a ship British-flagged cruise company Carnival . The ship was en route to Mombasa in Kenya for a 16-day cruise and came from Alexandria, Egypt. The attack took place at dawn and 100 miles off the coast of Somalia. The sea pirates were aboard two skiffs. The attack failed because the prompt reaction of the crew and the actions taken by the commander to escape the attackers.
The pirates were unable to board but have launched rockets exploded and numerous rounds of gunfire in the direction of the ship to intimidate. On board over three hundred passengers mostly Americans.Luckily none of them was killed or wounded. Only one crew member was injured slightly.
Ferdinando Pelliccia
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