Targeted by pirates in the Singapore Straits, the Indonesian archipelagic, theĬaribbean, Central, and South America – including Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guinea is not the only place where piracy is a serious problem. Were kidnapped, and one Azerbaijani sailor was killed. Pirates approximately 98 nautical miles off the coast of Guinea. A Turkish cargo ship was attacked by Nigerian Reported incident was on 23 January 2021. Luckily, the 13 kidnapped crew members were They held allġ9 crewmembers hostage, stole the ship’s documents and valuable items, andĮscaped with 13 kidnapped crew. ForĮxample, on 17 July 2020, eight pirates boarded a product tanker underwayĪround 196 nautical miles southwest of Bayelsa, Nigeria. Shore, which makes a safe route when navigating through this area harder. Pirate attacks in the Gulf of Guinea are usually happening very far from the Plus, both of the hijacked fishing vessels were sailing in the Gulf of Guinea at the time of the incident. Of the 85 seafarers kidnapped from their vessels and held for ransom, 80 were taken in the Gulf of Guinea – in 14 attacks reported off Nigeria, Benin, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, and Ghana. A total of 112 vessels were boarded and six were fired upon, while Threats, including 85 crewmembers being kidnapped and 31 held hostage onboard Nine months of 2020, seafarers reported 134 cases of assault, injury, and Approximately 95% of global kidnappings are reported from within Gulf of Guinea waters, according to IMB. TheThreatofPiracyintheShippingIndustry-6february2021-zeymarine.jpg The riskiest waters: Gulf of GuineaĬurrently, the riskiest region in the world is the Gulf of Guinea. There were 132 attacks in that period, as opposed to 119 incidents in the same period or 2019 year, despite the pandemic which caused travel limitations.
However, the International Chamber of Commerce’s International Maritime Bureau (IMB) figures showed a rise in piracy and armed robbery on the world’s seas in the first nine months of 2020. In 2010, this number was 445 and the figures actually show a steady decrease for the last decade.
The earliest documented instances of piracy date back to the 14 th century BC in the Aegean and Mediterranean waters, which means that nobody could solve the problem for the last 34 centuries.Īccording to Statista, 162 ships were attacked by pirates worldwide in 2019. Therefore, it is expected to have existed for as long as the seas have plied for commerce. Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically intending to steal cargo and other valuable items or properties. Let’s take a look at the roots of the issue and the possible sustainable solutions. The Threat of Piracy in the Shipping Industry Even though the number of pirate attacks against ships worldwide seems to have been decreasing for the last decade, maritime piracy is still a very serious problem.
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