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The ICC International Maritime Bureau (IMB) has revealed a rise in global piracy and armed robbery incidents in the first quarter of 2025.

The IMB has issued its annual Piracy and Armed Robbery Report, recording  116 incidents against ships in 2024 compared to 120 in 2023 and 115 in 2022.

ICC International Maritime Bureau (IMB)’s latest global quarterly piracy report shows that in the first nine months of 2024, reported incidents of piracy and armed robbery fell to the lowest levels since 1994.

ICC’s International Maritime Bureau (IMB) is calling for sustained vigilance to protect seafarers amid increasing violence despite an overall drop in the number of incidents reported in IMB’s mid-year report for 2024.

The ICC International Maritime Bureau (IMB) has raised concern on the continued acts of maritime piracy off the coast of Somalia from January to March 2024.  

Released on 11th January 2024, the annual Piracy and Armed Robbery Report of the ICC International Maritime Bureau (IMB) raises concern over the first successful Somali based hijacking since 2017.

ICC IMB’s latest global quarterly piracy report details 99 incidents of piracy and armed robbery against ships  in the first nine months of 2023, an increase from 90 incidents for the same period in 2022.

Gard highlights that, on 29 September 2023, a vessel was boarded by thieves whilst at anchor in Callao, Peru. The perpetrators tied up the duty crew and shore watchmen on routine rounds and held them at knifepoint, before escaping with the ship’s stores, reports the IMB PRC.  

The ICC International Maritime Bureau (IMB) has raised concern on the resurgence of reported incidents in the Gulf of Guinea waters and the increase in incidents in the Singapore Straits in its mid-year report for 2023.

The ICC International Maritime Bureau (IMB) has released the first quarterly report on piracy in 2023, which has recorded the lowest level of reported global piracy and armed robbery incidents since 1993.