Maersk Alabama
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| Owner: | Element Shipment SA |
| Operator: | Element Shipment SA |
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| Builder: | China Shipbuilding CorporationKeelung, Taiwan |
| Yard number: | 676 |
| Launched: | 1998 |
| Completed: | 1998 |
| Maiden voyage: | 1998 |
| In service: | 1998 |
| Homeport: | Norfolk, Virginia, U.S. |
| Identification: | IMO number: 9164263 |
| Status: | In active service |
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| Type: | Container ship |
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| Beam: | 25.30 m (83 ft 0 in) |
| Propulsion: | 1 Hitachi-Man 7S50 MC-C |
| Speed: | In excess of 18 knots (33 km/h) |
| Capacity: | 1,092 TEU |
| Crew: | 21 |
MV Tygra (formerly Maersk Alabama) is a container ship previously owned by Maersk Line Limited and operated by Waterman Steamship Corporation, now owned by Element Shipment SA of Piraeus.
She has a light-blue hull and a beige superstructure like all Maersk vessels, regardless of their flag of registry. She was hijacked by pirates near Somalia in 2009 and her crew held hostage. Four additional unsuccessful hijacking attempts were made later that year, 2010, and 2011.
Alva Maersk was built by China Shipbuilding Corporation, Keelung, Taiwan at yard number 676 and launched in 1998. As Alva Maersk, she was flagged to Denmark. In 2004, Alva Maersk was renamed Maersk Alabama and reflagged to the United States, with its operator, Maersk Line, Limited, based in Norfolk, Virginia. She has been involved in seven incidents, and remains in active service on Maersk Line's East Africa 4 service. Her regular route is from Mombasa, Kenya to Salalah, Oman, to Djibouti, and then returning to Mombasa.
In 2004, the ship was detained in Kuwait after becoming the victim of an apparent fraud scheme. According to papers filed by the A. P. Moller-Maersk Group with the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in 2005, Kuwait-based expatriates scammed the Group out of millions of dollars. Low-value goods were allegedly shipped under the guise of fraudulent, high-value bills of lading. Maersk was subsequently sued for losing goods that had never existed. Those allegedly behind the scheme were able to detain Alva Maersk in Kuwait as collateral. The ship was released in April 2004 after the A. P. Moller-Maersk Group was forced to put up $1.86 million as collateral.
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