LIMBURG ATTACK
June 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLGLOBAL shipping companies have been warned to be careful about information they reveal about the nature and positioning of their cargoes, with the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) using an assessment of the attack on the French tanker the Limburg as a cautionary example.An ICC conference was told by the managing director of the Limburg's manager Franship that the terrorists who rammed the tanker off Yemen in October 2002 attacked the ship's most vulnerable point, "a sign that they had accurate information about the exact location of cargo ...
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