St Kitts & Nevis has become the latest of five flag state signatories to the Washington declaration condemning acts of violence against seafarers – joining Bahamas, Liberia, Marshall Islands and Panama. The move underpins major quality initiatives by the London-based St Kitts & Nevis International Ship Registry (SKANReg), which has achieved further improvements in
Read moreSomali piracy has fallen to its lowest levels since 2006, focusing attention on violent piracy and armed robbery off the coast of West Africa, the International Chamber Commerce (ICC) International Maritime Bureau (IMB)’s latest global piracy report reveals. Worldwide, the IMB Piracy Reporting Centre (PRC) recorded 138 piracy incidents in the first six months
Read moreA lot of people fear that piracy could increase because most of the defense budgets of the maritime countries are cut. Anti-piracy operations and patrols will be hit. Military forces patrolling the region of Somalia will be reduced. The rate of pirate attack is going down, probably 40% of this is the presence of
Read morePiracy in west Africa is reaching dangerous proportions, the global piracy watchdog has said, with the increase in attacks fuelled by Nigerian criminals. As efforts continue to rescue seven foreign workers kidnapped from a vessel off the coast of Nigeria earlier this week, the director of the international maritime bureau (IMB) warned that the
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