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Better Cautious Than Dead 🏴‍☠️ Pirates from the Gulf of Guinea, who abducted 9 crew members of a liquified gas carrier off the coast of Equatorial Guinea in December, have released the hostages. 💵 Apparently, the Danish company Christina Shipping, which owned the vessel, simply negotiated a ransom, as there were no reports of any rescue operation. 🚢 The 9 sailors spent about a month in pirate captivity after their LNG carrier was attacked in early December. The ship itself, laden with gas, was of little interest to the pirates — they even left a skeleton crew on board to bring the vessel into port and inform the world of what had happened. ↗️ This tactic — settling for to ransoms without threatening the economic interests of major players — worked perfectly. In doing so, the pirates are minimizing the risk of provoking an armed crackdown, the thing that once destroyed their Somali counterparts. ➡️ Follow to stay informed - @devilsbelow