MV Faina
ship
Current position
No live position received yet. Identity and particulars below.
Identity & particulars
- Name
- MV Faina
- IMO number
- 7419377
- MMSI
- —
- Call sign
- —
- Flag
- —
- Vessel type
- ship
- Gross tonnage
- 10,931
- Deadweight (DWT)
- —
- Length overall
- 161.4 m
- Beam
- 18 m
- Year built
- 1978
- Builder
- Lödöse Varv AB
- Registered owner
- —
- Operator
- —
Particulars are enriched from public sources as they become available. Position & identity are derived live from AIS.
About MV Faina
MV Faina (Ukrainian: Фаїна) was a roll-on/roll-off cargo ship operated by a Ukrainian company that sailed under a Belize flag of convenience, owned by Panama City-based Waterlux AG, and managed by Tomex Team of Odesa, Ukraine. On 25 September 2008, the ship was captured by Somali pirates allegedly under the orders of piracy kingpin Mohamed Abdi Hassan, in the twenty-sixth such attack in 2008. The Faina's crew (at the time of capture) consisted of 17 Ukrainians, three Russians and one Latvian. On 28 September, Viktor Nikolsky, first mate on the Faina, said that Vladimir Kolobkov, the ship's Russian captain, had died from a hypertension-related stroke. On 5 February 2009 it was announced that a ransom of US $3.2 million had been paid to the pirates, and the ship was released the next day.
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is MV Faina now?
- MV Faina has not transmitted a live position recently. Its identity and particulars are kept on this page, and its position will appear here the moment it is detected on AIS again.
- What kind of ship is MV Faina?
- MV Faina is a ship, built in 1978 by Lödöse Varv AB. The vessel is 161.4 m long with a beam of 18 m and has a gross tonnage of 10,931.
- Has MV Faina been detained or sanctioned?
- No detentions or sanctions for MV Faina appear in the public sources Seadar tracks (USCG PSIX inspections and the OFAC SDN list).