In Mogadishu, Somalia, pirates seized an oil tanker. The tanker, the Sirius Star, had 100 million dollars worth of crude oil aboard the ship. The Iranian vessel captured was the seventh in twelve days. Ships area now being forced to sail around the Cape of Good Hope, in order to avoid any more hijackings. This means that the ships will have to travel thousands of extra miles, which will take days longer than originally planned.
Many Somali officials are looking into the matter and are proposing to win the tanker back by force if necessary. This is the largest tanker as well as the farthest from the coast, to ever be captured. The Sirius Star was holding 2 million barrels of oil and was 450 nautical miles from the coast.
Information courtesy of msnbc.com.
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