Do not relax your vigilance, even though the pirates have been less successful in the recent months. With the upcoming period of low sea states, pirate activity can increase. Our statistics show that they are weakened, but still capable of operating in excess of 1200nm from the Somali Coast. Although no merchant vessels have
Read moreA political, land-based solution to African piracy has yet to be achieved. The not-for-profit Save Our Seafarers initiative represents 31 industry bodies and has worked with states to encourage them to look at long-term solutions. Somalia’s President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed has been reported to say that he could end piracy within a year
Read morePirates that kidnapped 6 foreign seamen from an oil servicing ship off the Nigerian coast on February 17, 2013 are demanding 200 million naira (US$1.3 million) for their freedom, reported Nigerian police officials on Tuesday. Nigerian gunmen stormed the vessel Armada Tuah 40 n.m. off the coast of oil-producing Bayelsa state and kidnapped 1
Read morePiracy (and more recently terrorism) remains a thorn in the side of modern shipping. With incidents in the Indian Ocean dwindling to almost nothing, focus has shifted during the past 12 months back on to West Africa, where there has been an increase in hijackings and, in particular, in Extended Duration Robberies (“EDR”) involving
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