Well-armed pirates are widening their area of operations and using new strategies in a “worrying surge” of attacks, kidnappings and armed robberies in West Africa’s oil-rich Gulf of Guinea, an international piracy monitoring agency said Monday. The London-based International Maritime Bureau published figures for the first six months of the year indicating that while
Read moreWhile incidents of piracy decline off the Horn of Africa, an inestimable number of seafarers continue to bear the psychological impact of captivity by pirates. To describe their condition and to advise the maritime industry on how to care for affected individuals, the Seamen’s Church Institute (SCI), in collaboration with New York’s Mount Sinai School
Read moreU.K. maritime intelligence provider Dryad Maritime are to release a specialist report, ‘Special Advisory Southeast Asia: Disorganized theft to organized crime,’ which will focus on the rise of targeted hijackings in Southeast Asia. The advisory to be released on March 18, 2013 provides an overview of the security situation and the increased threat from
Read moreIt seems that there is no respite to the worries of the Indian mariners held hostage by the Somali pirates. A set of conditions has been given by the pirates for the release of the Indian hostages, giving a clear indication that the process will be delayed further. In a letter sent to OMCI
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