The standoff between a group of Somali pirates and the shipping company whose tanker they had hijacked came to an end in late January when a plane carrying more than $1 million in ransom set off for the Gulf of Aden, nearly two months after the ordeal had began. The crew was released unharmed, but during those 56 days of captivity, the chief executive of the Connecticut-based Industrial Shipping Enterprises, which owns the intercepted MV Biscaglia tanker, needed to keep ...