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Home›Green Marine›Shipping firm paid for negotiator to free crew kidnapped by pirates
Green Marine

April 6, 2005 · about 21 years ago

Shipping firm paid for negotiator to free crew kidnapped by pirates

The president of a shipping company that recently had three crewmembers kidnapped by pirates in the Malacca Strait has said that his firm paid for a negotiator to rescue the three men. Kanji Kondo, president of Kondo Kaiji in Kitakyushu that owns the tugboat Idaten, talked with the Mainichi on Wedne

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The president of a shipping company that recently had three crewmembers kidnapped by pirates in the Malacca Strait has said that his firm paid for a negotiator to rescue the three men. Kanji Kondo, president of Kondo Kaiji in Kitakyushu that owns the tugboat Idaten, talked with the Mainichi on Wednesday and said he hired a negotiator in Malaysia to talk with the pirates after the abduction on March 14 Japanese time.

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