He said the couple were being held hostage on a Singapore-registered container ship called the Kota Wajah.
On Wednesday April 8th it was confirmed that Somali gunmen had hijacked an American-operated container ship, the 17, 500 tonne Maersk Alabama.
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Richard Phillips reportedly offered himself as a hostage to the pirates during an attack Wednesday on the U.S.-flagged container ship Maersk Alabama in the Indian Ocean.
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From his boat, Ridley wrote a daily blog via a solar-powered satellite phone, describing his near collision with a container ship, battles with 20-foot waves and cravings for gin and tonics.
For example, China's development of an anti-ship ballistic missile is designed to target U.S. aircraft carriers - not some commercial container ship.
If I were a terrorist and wanted to get a weapon of mass destruction in the United States, my method of first choice would be a ship-borne cargo container.
Down at the docks in Rotterdam, the largest port in Europe, cranes swing into action, unloading "Edith" - the world's biggest container ship, which has just come into the port.
This is exactly the spirit in which 61-year-old Captain Arne Rinnan answered the call from the Australian coastguard requesting he sail and rescue the 460 asylum-seekers now on board his container ship.
The GT will be traveling by cargo ship in a 40-foot container between continents, the company says.
The skipper praised the captain of the German container ship, the Hoescht Express, which rescued the seven-strong crew more than 750 miles west of Ireland.
Russia is now marketing to rogue states its Club-K missile system, designed to clandestinely convert any common container ship into a missile launch platform, while preserving the freighter's innocent appearance.
More important is Mr Watson's claim that Sotheby's has handled countless smuggled antiquities from Italy and, on a bigger scale, India where unscrupulous dealers ship off rich pickings from their cultural heritage by the container-load, aided by officials happy to overlook misuse of the diplomatic bag.
One recent weapon is what frog-busters are calling a "hot shower chamber, " a modified freight container used by nurseries to ship plants, with multiple heads that spray heated water onto the plants and kill any coquis that might be lurking there.
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