Privateers grab six from German-possessed ship in Port Harcourt

Six team individuals from a German-claimed compartment dispatch, including the commander, have been seized in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, sea security examiners said.

The Sea Guardian consultancy said the Demeter "was assaulted by privateers" at around 7:00 am (0600 GMT) on Saturday.

"Privateers boarded the ship, hijacked six group, including (the) ace, boss officer, second officer, second specialist, bosun and cook," it said on its site www.sguardian.com Monday.

Reports recommended the assault was done by eight privateers in a dark speedboat, it included.

The Demeter had been going from the capital of Equatorial Guinea, Malabo, to the Liberian capital Monrovia at the time.

The Liberia-hailed vessel is possessed by German dispatching firm the Peter Doehle Group.

The MTI Network, an emergency correspondences firm that arrangements with occurrences in the transportation business said the assault occurred as the ship entered the port of Onne.

"The majority of the 12 remaining seafarers of the Demeter are sheltered and unhurt and the vessel has continued to safe waters," it said in an announcement.

The Peter Doehle amass said it would not uncover the nationalities of the group individuals taken "for security reasons".

The International Maritime Bureau has recorded 121 theft occurrences in universal waters this year, including shootings, endeavored kidnappings and hijackings of boats.

It depicted in a report distributed a week ago that the Gulf of Guinea remained a "problem area for assaults", in spite of a fall in the quantity of occurrences somewhere else on the planet.

"The waters off Nigeria remain especially hazardous," said the leader of the IMB Pottengal Mukundan, indicating the waters off the territory of Bayelsa, Bonny Island and Port Harcourt.

Mukundan said there had been an expansion in revealed hijackings and kidnappings, albeit numerous more had not been accounted for.

The IMB said "39 of the 49 crewmembers abducted all inclusive happened off Nigerian waters in seven separate episodes".

"Other group kidnappings in 2017 have been accounted for 60 nautical miles (69 miles, 111 kilometers) off the bank of Nigeria," it included.