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- Atlantic Ocean - Piracy (maritime) - Russia - shipping


Cargo ship, probably hijacked, vanished two weeks ago
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A Maltese-registered ship, the Arctic Sea, was supposed to reach Algeria on August 4 but disappeared. There has been no communication from the crew of the since the end of July. Focus looks at theories about what happened.
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Focus's guests: Andrew Osborn, The Daily Telegraph's Moscow bureau chief, and Anne-Sophie Avé, from Armateurs de France, a French ship-owners group.

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