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One hundred and two incidents of piracy and armed robbery have been reported for the first quarter of 2012, with dangerously increasing numbers in West African waters, according to figur...
According to law firm Holman Fenwick Willan, EU NAVFOR’S controversial decision to extend the rules of engagement to allow for activity against the Somali coast is an inevitab...
Somali pirates may start using machine guns
The European Union's war against Somali pirates may be set to escalate. This was the prediction of Lieutenant Col. Andy Price, on assign...
Italy uses military to guard its ships
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In the early hours of January 16, a chemical tanker, at anchor in Lagos, Nigeria, was hijacked by heavily armed pirates, or depending on the definition within territorial waters, heavily...
Pirates fired on a drifting Panama-flagged bulk carrier off the coast of Nigeria, killing the captain and chief engineer, a maritime watchdog body said as it warned shipping to stay clea...
There are about 3,500 Somali people working as pirates, attacking and hijacking vessels in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean, according to Wayne Miller, an official from the United N...
Employment of Armed Guards on Ships
International shipping association BIMCO announced today that it will be moving forward with the development of a standard contract for the em...