News / Pentagon is claiming 'harassment' after Iranian Navy seizes Maersk containership

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The 5,466 teu Maersk Tigris and its 24-strong crew remain under arrest in Iranian waters today as charterer Maersk Line, shipmanager Rickmers and the Danish embassy in Teheran endeavour to negotiate with the Iran courts over the settlement of a decade-old cargo claim and the release of the ship.

According to a Pentagon spokesman for the US Department of Defense, the US Naval Forces Central Command (Navcent) answered a distress call in the early hours of Tuesday morning from the master ...