 At the time of the hijacking the vessel was owned by a Finnish company and operated by Solchart Management.The ship was manned by a Russian crew of 15 and was declared to be carrying more than $1.8 million of timber from Jakobstad, Finland to Béjaïa, Algeria.The 6,700 cubic meters of sawn timber was sold by Rets Timber, a joint venture between Stora Enso Oyj and UPM-Kymmene Oyj.