GoA & Indian Ocean
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Daily Piracy Update
NATO Daily Piracy Update Recent Activity On 19 December, naval forces disrupted the skiff involved in an approach in the south west region of the Internationally Recommended Transit Corridor (IRTC) […]
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Boxship Attack
An MSC containership has survived a run-in with pirates off the coast of Somalia. Pirates targeted the 2,300-teu MSC Jeanne (built 1979) as it headed away from the port of […]
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Human Shield
British hostage Judith Tebbutt is being used as a pawn by Somali pirates so troops will not attack them. She was snatched from a beach resort in neighbouring Kenya two […]
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Close Encounter
A tanker has managed to avoid capture after a close encounter with pirates off Oman. Pirates attacked from a single skiff and targeted the 76,000-dwt “BW Danube” (built 2007). There […]
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Pirate Report
According to NATO’s 24 hour report, there has been one attack on a vessel in the Eastern GOA -1551N 05507E. The master of the vessel reported a possible mother ship […]
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Fight Back
The crew of a Taiwanese fishing vessel fought against armed Somali pirates to retake their ship after it was hijacked off East Africa, Taiwan authorities said. The 290-tonne “Chin Yi […]
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Negotiations Begin
The Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said negotiations are being carried out by the principal of “MT Liquid Velvet” with the pirates who hijacked the chemical tanker in the […]
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Hijacked Tanker
Somali pirates have hijacked a Greek-owned chemical tanker in the Gulf of Aden with a crew of 22 people on board including an unarmed guard, a regional maritime expert said […]
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Aid Kidnap
Gunmen kidnapped an American, a Dane and a Somali working for a Danish group which clears landmines in northern Somalia today, the second capture of Western aid agency staff in […]
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Guarded Response
Armed guards have saved a Greek tanker from pirates during a weekend attack in the Somali Basin. According to a report in Tradewinds, Seaworld Management & Trading’s 107,500-dwt “Sea Voyager” […]
