The British Maritime Trade Operations Office reclassified the incident that occurred 65 nautical miles south of the port of Mukalla in Yemen as a hijacking incident. The ship involved was boarded and controlled by unknown persons. The ship was sailing east in the Gulf of Aden at the time of the incident. The military informed the British Maritime Trade Operations Office that the ship involved had been manipulated to sail into Somali territorial waters.

The British Maritime Trade Operations Office reclassified the incident that occurred 65 nautical miles south of the port of Mukalla in Yemen as a hijacking incident. The ship involved was boarded and controlled by unknown persons. The ship was sailing east in the Gulf of Aden at the time of the incident. The military informed the British Maritime Trade Operations Office that the ship involved had been manipulated to sail into Somali territorial waters.