Vessel arrested at Libyan port after refund demand for cars stranded on sister ship

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The vessel at the centre of one of the most extraordinary episodes in the history of recent piracy has again found itself at the heart of an international dispute in one of the world’s most unstable places.

The Belize-flagged, Ukrainian-owned MV Faina, a ro-ro ship that was hijacked by Somali pirates in 2008 while transporting a shipment of 33 T-72 tanks to the fledgling government of South Sudan, leading to an international diplomatic crisis, has been cited as the reason why ...