Lome FSO ‘assault’ shows bandits moving west

Second time lucky: Silvaplana reportedly escaped unscathed in April following assault a year earlier

Neda Maritime Agency

Eoin O'Cinneide

 22 June 2012 15:10 GMT

A floating, storage & offloading (FSO) vessel was one of a number of units which suffered brushes with maritime criminals in April as the region’s piracy problem looks to be spreading west from Nigeria.

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