10-04-2008, 03:44 AM
Didn't know the ship was run by a organization in Mumbai and the skipper being Indian.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>The ship is owned by a Japanese company and managed by Fleet Marine Ltd in Mumbai</b>. The hijackers had earlier demanded a ransom of US $ 6 million for the release of the crew and later came down to US $ 2.5 million.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>The wife of the captain of the ship, hijacked by armed Somalian pirates in the Gulf of Aden, </b>today met Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi [Images] seeking his intervention to save the lives of 18 Indian sailors onboard the vessel.
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Seema Goyal, the wife of Prabhat Goyal, requested Rahul Gandhi to take up the issue with the government for release of the sailors.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Hijacked ship captain's wife seeks Rahul Gandhi's intervention
Balu too busy dredging? Isn't he the shipping minister?
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>The ship is owned by a Japanese company and managed by Fleet Marine Ltd in Mumbai</b>. The hijackers had earlier demanded a ransom of US $ 6 million for the release of the crew and later came down to US $ 2.5 million.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>The wife of the captain of the ship, hijacked by armed Somalian pirates in the Gulf of Aden, </b>today met Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi [Images] seeking his intervention to save the lives of 18 Indian sailors onboard the vessel.
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Seema Goyal, the wife of Prabhat Goyal, requested Rahul Gandhi to take up the issue with the government for release of the sailors.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Hijacked ship captain's wife seeks Rahul Gandhi's intervention
Balu too busy dredging? Isn't he the shipping minister?