A former Norden capesize bulker suffered a theft off China last month in an incident that saw a sizeable quantity of the ship’s bunkers stolen.
Details of the raid on the 176,346-dwt Nord Power (built 2005) come in the latest report from by the Singapore-based Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia (ReCAAP) Information Sharing Centre.
The incident reportedly took place on the afternoon of 1 January 2016 at Tianjin outer anchorage in position 38° 49’ N, 118° 49’ E.
“While at anchor, the watchman while on roving patrol found the diesel oil storage tank port manhole cover nuts were off the stud bolts,” ReCAAP said.
“Tank sounding and quantity check was conducted and upon investigation, they found that about 39 metric tons of low sulphur MGO was stolen from the storage tank.”
The incident came just days after Norden confirmed that it had sold the vessel. The ship was handed over to its new owners in early February.
This is not the first time the prominent Danish shipowner has been the victim of robbers in Asia.
Late last year two virtually brand new Norden MRs were attacked by armed robbers within 24 hours of each other in Southeast Asia.
The 50,000-dwt Nord Supreme (built 2015) was boarded by three perpetrators while at Belawan anchorage in Indonesia on 5 October.
Less than a day later the 50,000-dwt Nord Swift (built 2015) was boarded at around 06:30 local time off Sandakan anchorage in Malaysia.
