Tag: piracy threat

IMB has reported the lowest number of reported piracy and armed robbery incidents for the first nine months of any year since 1994.

The bulker Trudy was intercepted and boarded by French police off Dunkirk on October 1, in the aftermath of a drug bust.

Royal Navy's HMS Trent is bound for the waters of the Gulf of Guinea, as it heads for security patrols and a mission to support allies in West Africa.

A new paper published in the RUSI Journal, three scholars of maritime security examine the UK’s maritime security strategy refresh.

Support for eradicating piracy in the Gulf of Guinea is gaining strength both in Asia and world-wide. Now, organisations including Japan’s NYK Line and the Asian Shipowners’ Association are among the latest to join in the call for action.

Following the release of US Maritime Administration (MARAD) revised advisory (2021-009) in early September, vessels are reminded of the need for vigilance, after two Houthi Waterborne IED vessels were destroyed in the southern Red Sea in the vicinity of As-Salif.

47 officers from 21 ReCAAP Member States, including its newest member, Germany, participated in an annual Capacity Building Executive Programme 2021 (CBEP-21) to share with the Focal Points of ReCAAP’s Contracting Parties.

Pirates have violently attacked a vessel in the Gulf of Guinea, injuring two crew members with another reported missing.

The insurgency in the Cabo Delgado province of Mozambique has been placed firmly in the international spotlight as it also poses a maritime threat.

After an attack on an OSV in Gabon over the weekend, new information suggests that the vessel may have been targeted with local authorities investigating people that were hired onshore to provide services to the vessel.