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Zodiac Maritime Ltd is an international ship management company. Zodiac is also a large ship owner and charters out these vessels. It is part of Ofer Global, based in
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Zodiac Maritime Ltd is an international ship management company. Zodiac is also a large ship owner and charters out these vessels. It is part of Ofer Global, based in Monaco
Monaco (; ), officially the Principality of Monaco (french: Principauté de Monaco; Ligurian: ; oc, Principat de Mónegue), is a sovereign city-state and microstate on the French Riviera a few kilometres west of the Italian region of Lig ...
, and the chairman is Eyal Ofer
Eyal Ofer (born 1950) is an Israeli billionaire real estate and shipping magnate, and a philanthropist. He is the chairman of Ofer Global, Zodiac Group and Global Holdings.
Biography
Eyal Ofer was born in 1950 in Haifa, Israel.Karmin, CraigDevelo ...
.
Zodiac was involved in the MSC Napoli
''MSC Napoli'' was a United Kingdom-flagged container ship that developed a hull breach due to rough seas and slamming in the English Channel on 18 January 2007. She was deliberately run aground at Lyme Bay to avoid an environmental disaster an ...
, the container ship that ran into difficulty in the English Channel. In late 2009 and early 2010, two of its ships (''St James Park'' and ''MV Asian Glory
MV ''Asian Glory'' is a UK flagged automobile transport ship.
Hijacking
On 2 January 2010 the ''Asian Glory'' was hijacked by pirates 1,000 km off the Horn of Africa.
The pirates used a Pakistani vessel, , to hijack ''Asian Glory''; how ...
'') were captured by Somali pirates
Somali may refer to:
Horn of Africa
* Somalis, an inhabitant or ethnicity associated with Greater Somali Region
** Proto-Somali, the ancestors of modern Somalis
** Somali culture
** Somali cuisine
** Somali language, a Cushitic language
** Somal ...
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According to a 2014 analysis conducted by Globes
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, the companies of the Zodiac group generated together an operating profit of just over $1.5 billion in 2003–12, with an operating profit margin of 39%, and a 0.49% tax rate on profits.
In July 2014, Eyal Ofer
Eyal Ofer (born 1950) is an Israeli billionaire real estate and shipping magnate, and a philanthropist. He is the chairman of Ofer Global, Zodiac Group and Global Holdings.
Biography
Eyal Ofer was born in 1950 in Haifa, Israel.Karmin, CraigDevelo ...
, the principal of Zodiac Group, received an honorary life membership of the Baltic Exchange for his contribution to shipping in the UK and global maritime trade. Later that year, he was named in the top 10 most influential people in the shipping industry according to Lloyds List
''Lloyd's List'' is one of the world's oldest continuously running journals, having provided weekly shipping news in London as early as 1734. It was published daily until 2013 (when the final print issue, number 60,850, was published), and is ...
2014.
See also
*July 2021 Gulf of Oman incident
On 29 July 2021, the oil tanker MT ''Mercer Street'', travelling from Tanzania to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with no cargo onboard, was attacked off the coast of Oman. The ship is flagged in Liberia. It is Japanese-owned and managed by Israel ...
* MV Asian Glory
MV ''Asian Glory'' is a UK flagged automobile transport ship.
Hijacking
On 2 January 2010 the ''Asian Glory'' was hijacked by pirates 1,000 km off the Horn of Africa.
The pirates used a Pakistani vessel, , to hijack ''Asian Glory''; how ...
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Shipping companies of Monaco Ofer family