In your link it states the ship was scheduled to arrive on Friday. So if the report was dated November 7th Friday, would Friday mean November 14th ? You would think a report written on Friday that referred to that Friday would refer to it as today. Confusing to say the least. At any rate, we have confirmation that the reported ship name as spelled by the news reports, was in Qasim Port Pakistan earlier this month. It may have also paid a visit to the Karachi Port under the name MV Alpha Aforovos about 6 weeks ago. And to confuse the situation further a ship named Alpha Afovos (without the MV) has been reported in Vancouver and BUENOS AIRES months ago. My guess is the Alpha Afovos is a completely different ship. We need someone affluent in the maritime naming nomenclature to sort this stuff out. Good luck. Will check in later.
I think the article I quoted was written on the Thursday and therefore Friday indicates the next day, ie 7th November.
MV stands for Motor Vessel, just as SS stands for Steam Ship. So in all likelihood MV Alpha Afovos is the same ship as Alpha Afovos.
Afovos is a Greek word (see here)
A picture of the (MV) Alpha Afovos can be found here.
I will have to go back in the thread to see if I can find where the name of the ship boarded first appeared.
The only mention of the ship Alpha Aforovos I can find is the pdf-file you've already posted. Aforovos appears to be a Spanish and/or Portuguese word.
I would have to agree that Alpha Afovos and Alpha Aforovos seem to be two different ships. Wonder if Lloyds Shipping register is open to the public?
I was trying to figure out this as well because I found a picture of the Alfa Afovos here
Link the MV if I remember correctly stands for motor vessel versus SS which is steamship