The European Community Shipowners’ Associations visits EU NAVFOR Somalia Operation Atalanta Meeting reiterates: threat of piracy not eradicated off the Horn of Africa. On 23 May, ECSA’s Maritime Security Working…
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Somalia signs Jeddah Amendment on illicit maritime activity
04/12/2017 – Somalia has become the 14th signatory* to the Jeddah Amendment to the Djibouti Code of Conduct – the instrument developed and adopted by countries in the Western Indian…
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Maritime piracy report sees first Somali hijackings after five-year lull
London and Kuala Lumpur, 4 May 2017 – Pirates and armed robbers attacked 43 ships and captured 58 seafarers in the first quarter of 2017, slightly more than the same…
Following our last yesterday, we advise our viewers that EU Naval Force (Somalia) has confirmed that fuel tanker Aris 13 and her crew are now en route to a safe…
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IMO Secretary-General urges vigilance after tanker hijack
IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim has urged the shipping industry to apply diligently IMO guidance and best management practices to avert possible piracy attacks, in the wake of the hijack of…
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Operation Atalanta continues to keep the coast of Somalia safe
ECSA welcomes the European Council’s decision of 25 November to extend the mandate of Atalanta, the European Union’s counter-piracy operation along the East African coast. “The two-year mandate extension comes…
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Naham 3 seafarers – after the homecoming
After four and a half years being held by Somali pirates, the 26 surviving men of the fishing vessel Naham 3 were freed on the 22nd October 2016. The press…
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Threat to seafarers remains despite piracy clampdown, IMB reports
London and Kuala Lumpur, 31 October 2016 – Kidnapping and hostage-taking persists off the coasts of West Africa and South East Asia, despite a 20-year low in piracy on the…
ISWAN welcomes the news of the jailing of Somali pirate kingpin Mohamed Abdi Hassan in Belgium for 20 years for the hijacking of the Pompei, a Belgian flagged ship captured…
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Thousands of Weapons to flood black market as PMSCS and armouries go bust
ESC Global Security (ESCGS) has welcomed the decision by the Contact Group for Piracy off the Coast of Somalia to reduce the size of the Indian Ocean High Risk Area,…
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Global Economy and shipping markets drop further; geopolitics in a mess!
Our forty-second weekly recapitulation of the shipping markets, their respective main indices and world geopolitics affecting same in 2015 and beyond, tonight Friday the 16th of October 2015, with John…
“Somali Piracy”: reduction to high risk area In a joint press release today, BIMCO, the International Chamber of Shipping, Intercargo, Intertanko and OCIMF have formally announced a reduction to the…
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The shipping markets: Down and out?
Our nineteenth weekly recapitulation of the shipping markets, their respective main indices and world geopolitics affecting same in 2015 and beyond, tonight Friday the 8th of May 2015, with John…
27/04/2015 A three-day Stakeholders Forum (27-29 April) to review draft guidelines for the establishment of a Somalia Maritime Administration, coordinated and funded by IMO, is being hosted by the Kenya Maritime…
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Shipping in the Indian Ocean is still at risk
Underestimating the security risk in the Indian Ocean could put ships in great danger once again, says leading maritime security company MAST Ltd. Gerry Northwood OBE, COO of MAST, said:…
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Shipping industry releases updated anti-piracy guidelines on Gulf of Guinea Region
The Round Table of international shipping industry associations has released an updated version of ‘Guidelines for Owners, Operators and Masters for Protection Against Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea Region.’…
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Expanding trade and smaller navies are good news for pirates
The London Shipping Law Centre’s third major seminar of the year, ‘Piracy legal, commercial and political developments’, was a resounding success, on 26 March, and was attended by over a…
Piracy is a term that stands for a general situation. In order to comprehend the general notion of piracy in the HRA*, one must look at the countries supporting it.…
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What George Santayana has to say about Somali Piracy
What George Santayana has to say about Somali Piracy George Kiourktsoglou (Part Time Lecturer, PhD Candidate, University of Greenwich, London)[1] Dr. Alec Coutroubis (Principal Lecturer, University of Greenwich, London) with the…
Reports from the International Maritime Bureau that piracy is at a six year low were welcomed, but with a serious attack on two ships just a month ago it is…
Wednesday, 15 January 2014 07:00 – Piracy at sea has reached its lowest levels in six years, with 264 attacks recorded worldwide in 2013, a 40% drop since Somali piracy…
The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), the principal global trade association for shipowners, has issued a paper drawing upon the international shipping industry’s experience of Somali-based piracy during the period 2007…
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WISTA Forum highlights personal cost of piracy
A Chief Engineer who was held by Somali pirates for eight months will be the main speaker at a session on piracy at the WISTA UK Forum, running as part…
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Somali pirates are biding their time a major maritime security briefing has been told
“Somali pirates are ‘sleeping’, they have not gone away”, said Mary Harper, BBC Africa Editor, who has reported widely on events in the region. Growing political instability in Somalia and…