The vessel, which has been identified by UK Maritime Trade Operations as the Greek-owned, Saint Vincent and Grenadines-flagged bulk carrier Glamor, was approached and then boarded by perpetrators on a skiff while some 38 nautical miles in the Gulf of Aden southwest of the town of Balhaf. UKMTO said the ship’s crew then mustered in the citadel, and the unauthorised personnel boarded the vessel but were unsuccessful in seizing control, later disembarking as the vessel resumed normal transit. The 24,073 dwt, 1998-built handysize/general cargo ship, managed by Greece’s Dolphin Seatrade, was sailing from Salalah towards Djibouti and had first been reported approached at 0900 UTC roughly 98 nautical miles southwest of Al Mukalla. All crew members were reported safe, and assets from the European Union’s Operation Atalanta naval counter-piracy task force were investigating the incident.
The boarding has been recorded as the 25th ship hijacking or boarding incident worldwide since the start of 2026, and marks the first reported piracy case since a similar attack on August 20. The attack occurred in an area of Yemen not controlled by the Iran-backed Houthi movement, though analysts have linked the broader resurgence in piracy to regional instability and naval forces stretched thin by conflicts in the Red Sea and the Strait of Hormuz, which have pushed international vessels to reroute closer to Somali waters. MSCIO and Operation Atalanta said they continue to monitor five vessels currently held in Somali coastal waters, including the tankers Honour 25 and Sward, amid what has been described as an increasingly worrying resurgence of Somali piracy.
Source: Splash247 — https://splash247.com/pirates-board-ship-off-yemen/
Tags: Gulf of Aden, Somali Piracy, Yemen, Bulk Carrier
