Tanker hijacked in the Somali Basin

On the morning of October 30 the Panama-flagged tanker Polar, 72.825 DWT, was hijacked some 580 nautical miles East from the island of Socotra, Yemen, the EU Navfor confirms.
The Liberia-owned Polar has a crew of 24; of which one is Romanian, three are Greek, four Montenegrin and 16 Filipino.