Tag: maritime piracy

Evidence gathered so far by the INTERPOL has led the Liberian Registry to conclude that the Liberian-flagged product tanker Kerala was hijacked by pirates at Luanda, Angola on 18th January.

NATO Shipping Centre - Weekly Piracy Assessment reporting period 29 January - 05 February 2014

January - December 2014 ReCAAP Information Sharing Centre has issued its annual report (January - December 2013) on piracy and armed robbery against ships in Asia. According to the report, there is an overall improvement of the situation of piracy and armed robbery against ships in Asia. Although the number of incidents has increased, the bulk of them were pettytheft.Notably, compared to 2012, there has been a remarkable reduction in the number ofCategory 1 (very significant) incidents and Category 2 (moderately significant) incidents,while Category 3 (less significant) incidents has remained fairly consistent. The petty theft(73) and Category 3 (36) incidents comprised 77% of the incidents reported in 2013. The other23% comprised the Category 1 (2) and Category 2 (30) incidents, which was lowest based ona year-on-year comparison. The two Category 1 incidents involved the hijacking of producttankers for illegal siphoning of marine gas oil (MGO)/crude oil they carried onboard.In 2013, a total of 150 incidents comprising 141 actual incidents and nine attempted incidentswere reported to the ReCAAP ISC after verification by the ReCAAP Focal Points. Amongstthese incidents, 11 were piracy incidents and 139 were incidents of armed robbery againstships which occurred mostly at ports and anchorages. Compared to 2012, the ...

The Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) has issued Piracy Analysis and Warning Report for the past week, 23 January - 29 January 2014. The PAWW Report is a review of recent piracy and maritime crime incidents around the Horn of Africa and the Gulf of Guinea.

On 29 January 2014, international collaboration in the fight against piracy resulted in the transfer of five men by the EU Naval Force (EU NAVFOR) Somalia Operation Atalanta flagship, FS Siroco, to the Republic of Seychelles, with the aim of prosecuting them for acts of piracy.

NATO Shipping Centre - Weekly Piracy Assessment reporting period 22 December - 29 January 2014

The Greek managers of an oil tanker missing off southwestern Africa for nearly a week and thought to have been attacked by pirates say that now all crew are safe.

ONI Piracy Report on Horn of Africa Gulf of Guinea for reporting period 16 January - 22 January 2014

ONI World Threat to Shipping reporting period 22 December 2013 22 January 2014

Efforts for building a sustainable fishing sector at Somalia to prevent piracy Per Gullestrup, whose Danish-operated ship was hijacked by Somali pirates for several weeks, is to be joined this today at a meeting in London, by other shippers and government representatives, to discuss expanding coordination across job-creating projects in coastal regions of Somalia, including a fishing project he leads on the north Somali coast.Per Gullestrup is a Partner of the Clipper Group, whose cargo ship CEC Future and 13 crew was hijacked for 72 days by Somali pirates in 2008. He personally negotiated with the pirates over several weeks to gain release of the vessel and crew. The tense drama became the basis of a Danish film called "A Hijacking"In a notable turn of events, Per Gullestrup is now chairman of a Somali-Danish project called Somali Fair Fishing (SFF), (www.fairfishing.org), which is building a sustainable fishing sector at the Somali port city of Berbera.Several shipping companies and other organizations have donated fishing and storage equipment as well as other services and funds which have helped SFF to build a fisheries station in Berbera, complete with ice machines, cold-storage rooms and processing facilities."Our small project aims to build up a ...