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According to the Times of Malta , the Arctic Sea has been released to its Finnish owners.

What really happened when the Arctic Sea cargo ship went missing amid allegations of hijacking and weapons smuggling? The BBC's Sarah Rainsford went to Kaliningrad to find out.

More than a month ago the Arctic Sea, the Russian-crewed cargo ship suspected of transporting illegal arms to Iran, was recovered off the coast of West Africa.

Arctic Sea - a serial absentee By John Helmer MOSCOW - Port logs for the MV Arctic Sea , the small Turkish-built, Russian-owned vessel recently reported at the center of an alleged piracy and extortion attempt, reveal that the timber-carrier has been making regular voyages between Finnish ports and either Algerian or French Mediterranean ports for ...

Mikhail Voitenko , the Russian maritime journalist who first alerted the world to the shipa s disappearance and then claimed that it might be carrying a secret arms shipment from the Kremlin, has fled from Russia to Turkey, fearing for his safety.

Undated file photo shows Russia's Black Sea Fleet warship and submarine hunter Ladny The Russian Defense Ministry, in a statement Wednesday, said crew members confirmed the threat.

The crew and suspected hijackers of the Arctic Sea - the cargo ship found by Russia's navy off West Africa on Monday - have arrived in Moscow.

Solchart Arkhangelsk Ltd, the operator of the missing Arctic Sea cargo vessel, said on Friday it has no reliable information on the whereabouts of its ship.

Russia on Tuesday said it had arrested eight people for hijacking a merchant ship whose two-week disappearance baffled experts until she was found by Moscow's navy in the Atlantic Ocean.

Key developments in the search for the ship Arctic Sea, which disappeared along with its 15-man Russian crew in the Atlantic nearly three weeks ago.

St Petersburg News.Net Saturday 15th August, 2009 Moscow, Aug 15 A tracking device aboard a cargo ship, missing since late July, was briefly reactivated Saturday, showing the vessel's location in the Bay of Biscay, a Russian maritime journal said.

Undated file photo released on Aug. 12, 2009 by Maritime Bulletin Sovfracht shows the Arctic Sea cargo ship at an unknown location Reports from military and maritime officials say the Russian owned vessel that disappeared in the English Channel late last month has been sighted near Cape Verde, off the western coast of Africa.

A ransom demand has been made for the lost merchant ship Arctic Sea, Finnish media said on Saturday, but the whereabouts of the vessel were still unknown in a saga looking increasingly like the plot of a spy thriller.

A mystery ship, which reportedly sailed through the English Channel after been boarded by pirates, has been found off the west African coast.

Pirates have probably hijacked a merchant ship which disappeared after sailing through the English Channel last month, its operator said.

The authorities across the world are searching for a Maltese-registered cargo ship that has disappeared after apparently being hijacked.

The mystery surrounding a missing merchant ship deepened on Thursday with the vessel's operator suggesting piracy and maritime experts suspecting foul play or even a secret cargo.

The Russian Navy's entire Atlantic fleet is searching for a cargo ship which pirates are suspected of hijacking before passing though the English Channel, it emerged today.

MYSTERY deepened today over a missing Russian-crewed cargo ship last seen in July in the English Channel, as experts debate whether pirates, a mafia squabble or a commercial dispute are to blame.

A cargo ship with a Russian crew has been missing for 12 days and its last known location was off the coast of Portugal, the Russian maritime journal Sovfracht has reported on its website.