Tag: anti piracy measures

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has not extended a resolution for the fight against piracy and armed robbery at sea within Somalia’s territorial waters.

Lt. CDR. Diego Cánovas-Cánovas, Special Advisor for the Shipping Industry, European Union Naval Force Operation Atalanta, makes an assessment of 2021 and shares his message for the new year across the global maritime community.

Ghana will push for international response to address the incidence of piracy in the Gulf of Guinea when it a takes its seat on the UN Security Council in January 2022.

The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to allow international naval forces to continue using all necessary means to fight piracy off the coast of Somalia, only for the next three months.

Kwaku Ofori Asiamah, the Ghana's Minister of Transport, has asked West and Central African regional governments to join their forces so as to fight the incessant piracy and armed robbery attacks in the regions’ waters. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the 26th Meeting of the Board of Governors of the Regional Maritime University (RMU), in Accra over the weekend, Mr Asiamah said piracy incidents if not curtailed could greatly affect the maritime industry in the sub-region and beyond. "The implications if adequately dealt with would have dire consequences to the maritime industry,” he said, adding that: “I wish, therefore, to urge members not to relent but collaborate more to bring this menace to an end.” To remind, according to data from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, West Africa alone lost $2.3 billion between 2015 and 2017 due to maritime crime. Namely, the Ghana Navy has revealed that 39 pirate attacks were recorded on the Gulf of Guinea between January and October 2021, with the latest occurring on October 11, 2021. On account of our geographical location, we occupy a strategically important position in the Gulf of Guinea. We rely heavily on international maritime commerce and exploitation ...

The Federal Government of Nigeria will collaborate with the Republic of Korea on the Integrated National Security and Waterways Protection Infrastructure otherwise known as the Deep Blue Project.

USS Hershel “Woody” Williams, the first ship permanently assigned to Africa, recently arrived in Nigeria’s commercial capital city of Lagos, as part the U.S. government’s support to combat piracy in the Gulf of Guinea.

The IFC has just conducted the 7th Maritime Information Sharing Exercise (MARISX) from 27 to 29 Jul 21. The exercise seeks to strengthen mutual understanding and cooperation in info-sharing between military, enforcement agencies and the shipping community through table-top exercises, in-depth discussions on MARSEC matters and presentations from subject-matter experts across various MARSEC threat categories.

The Gulf of Guinea Maritime Collaboration Forum – SHADE (GOG-MCF/SHADE) project was officially launched on 14 July as a new collaborative framework to combat illicit maritime activities in the Gulf of Guinea. 

IMO has called for increased collaboration and action to tackle an escalation in the number and severity of attacks in the Gulf of Guinea region, which threatens the lives and well-being of seafarers and the safety of shipping.