Source:AP / DW.COM Pirates have hijacked an Indian commercial vessel off the coast of Somalia and are holding its 11 sailors for ransom, according to a private marine security investigator. Dryad Maritime reported that the…
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Source: [Somali pirates just hijacked a commercial ship for the first time in five years] Everyone thought the Somali pirate threat had ended. Then a tanker was attacked. By Kevin Sieff March 15 Somali pirates hijack…
Source: BBC Hijackers holding an oil tanker off the coast of Somalia are demanding a ransom, the European Union anti-piracy naval force says. The EU force made contact with the ship’s master who said his…
Source: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/malaysian-oil-tanker/3050696.html A file photo of the Vier Harmoni, a Malaysian oil tanker that was hijacked on Tuesday. (Photo: Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency on Facebook) KUALA LUMPUR: An oil tanker, which was earlier reported to have been…
File photo shows an EU Naval Force warship escorting a World Food Programme (WFP) chartered vessel in the Gulf of Aden in May 2013. Photo: EU Navfor London and Kuala Lumpur, 25 July 2016 –…
source: A EU NAVFOR boarding team in the Gulf of Aden. File photo credit: EU NAVFOR Another attempted boarding of a commercial ship in the Gulf of Aden shows that pirates are still active in…
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2016/03/01/pirates-hack-shipping-company/ Seaborne pirates just borrowed a page from their land-based counterparts. A Verizon security report has revealed that raiders hacked a shipping company’s content management system to determine which ships were worth boarding, and where…
Source:https://gcaptain.com/kidnapped-crew-released-in-nigeria/ MV Solarte. Photo: MarineTraffic.com/Maksimas Four crew members who were kidnapped from an cargo ship off the Niger Delta in October have been freed in Nigeria, according to reports. The four men, two from Lithuania…
Despite an overall global reduction in serious pirate attacks this year, there remains no room for complacency in the global fight against piracy on the high seas, the International Maritime Bureau’s Piracy Reporting Centre (IMB…
Article Source: http://www.thecrewreport.com/features/22126/is-piracy-still-a-threat%EF%BB%BF WBIED.com comments: although a report almost a year old – we still think it has relevancy. The superyacht industry is often told to ignore worries over piracy in most areas where yachts would…