Piracy
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Seafarers to continue receiving wages if held by pirates
Seafarers held captive as a result of an act of piracy or armed robbery against ships will continue to receive…
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Dutch ship attacked in Nigeria, hostages taken
Dutch MPP owner ForestWave Navigation has reported that on Saturday morning its general cargo vessel FWN Rapide came under attack…
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RMS St Helena becomes a floating armory
A famous ship that has plied the South Atlantic since 1990 has found a new owner and a new mode…
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Two guards shot in latest Gulf of Guinea pirate attack
Two guards from Benin were injured when the Luxembourg-registered product tanker they were working on was hijacked by pirates early…
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Pirates repelled by boiling water
The crew of a ship passing through the southern Philippines repelled a pirate attack on Friday using boiling water mixed…
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Marine Express freed from pirate hijacking off Benin
The Anglo-Eastern managed product tanker , which was the subject of a pirate attack and seizure in the Gulf of…
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Fears grow of another pirate attack on a product tanker anchored off Benin
Anglo-Eastern, managers of the 45,989 dwt oil products tanker , report that contact has been lost with the vessel which…
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I, Pirate: A cyber story in the maritime industry
Aybars Oruc discusses how shipping must get to grips with cyber attacks. I, Robot – the 2004 film adapted from…
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Missing Union Maritime tanker confirmed taken by pirates
UK-based Union Maritime has confirmed that 2005-built oil products tanker which went missing last Tuesday off Benin has been the…
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Vietnamese master abducted by Abu Sayyaf found dead
A Vietnamese master kidnapped in southern Philippine waters last year has been found killed. Pham Minh Tuan was found by…
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Seaman Guard Ohio crew acquitted
A judge in India yesterday acquitted the 35 men onboard the anti-piracy vessel of weapons charges. They were previously convicted…
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Ships targeted off Yemen
Houthi militias have repeated they are out to target commercial ships transiting near war-torn Yemen. “We will take measures we…
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Tanker attacked off Batam
A tanker managed by Sharjah-based Silver Star Ship Management was attacked by five assailants yesterday off Singapore. Five men carrying…
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Duterte vows to blast Abu Sayyaf out of the seas
Not for the first time, President Rodrigo Duterte has spoken about his keenness to get very aggressive with pirates in…
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Asian shipowners call for BMP4 update
The Asian Shipowners’ Association has called for the guidelines for ships transiting the notoriously unstable Horn of Africa to be…
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Malaysians congratulated for quick piracy response
Masafumi Kuroki, executive director, at the Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia (ReCAAP)…
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Maritime security transit corridor formed off the Horn of Africa
The Combined Maritime Forces (CMF), a multinational naval partnership founded in 2002, to keep tradelanes safe off the Horn of…
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Mumbai court sentences 15 Somali pirates to seven years’ imprisonment
A Mumbai court yesterday sentenced 15 Somalis to seven years’ imprisonment for piracy acts carried out in the Indian-governed part…
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Asian piracy incidents hit 10-year low
The Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia Information Sharing Centre (ReCAAP ISC) has…
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Abu Sayyaf beheads two seafarers
Philippine armed forces discovered the beheaded bodies this morning of two Vietnamese seafarers abducted by Muslim terror group Abu Sayyaf…
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