Article: Container ship joins the navy to fight pirates


New Straits Times
06-02-2009
Container ship joins the navy to fight pirates
Edition: Main/Lifestyle
Section: Main Section

PASIR GUDANG: A continer ship has joined the navy as an auxiliary vessel on its anti-piracy mission in the Gulf of Aden.

MISC Bhd, in collaboration with the Royal Malaysian Navy and the National Security Council converted the MV Bunga Mas Lima to escort and protect its ships sailing through the pirate-infested gulf off the coast of Somalia.
This follows last year's hijacking of two MISC ships there.

In a statement yesterday, MISC said the conversion was carried out by its heavy engineering arm Malaysia Marine and Heavy Engineering Sdn Bhd here.

The Bunga Mas Lima is ...

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