Piracy
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Armed robbery incidents rise around the Singapore Strait
Incidents of armed robbery against ships continue to occur to ships while underway in the Singapore Strait. From April 8…
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15 crew abducted from chemical tanker by pirates off Benin
A 2016-built chemical tanker was boarded by pirates off Cotonou, Benin on Thursday with 15 crewmembers kidnapped. According to maritime…
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Concern Abu Sayyaf might be targeting ships again
ReCAAP Information Sharing Centre, an Asian piracy monitoring organisation, today issued a warning based on information from the Philippine Coast…
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15 crew hostages freed
Fifteen Turkish sailors kidnapped by pirates last month in the Gulf of Guinea were freed in Nigeria late last week…
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Boxship attacked in Gulf of Guinea, 15 crew kidnapped and one dead
The 2,824 teu containership was attacked by pirates near Sao Tome in the Gulf of Guinea yesterday, while it was…
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Gulf of Guinea becomes this decade’s Somalia as kidnapping cases soar
The International Chamber of Commerce’s International Maritime Bureau (IMB)’s annual piracy report recorded an increase of piracy and armed robbery…
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Four kidnapped from Diamond S Shipping product tanker
Diamond S Shipping has confirmed that four crew have been kidnapped from its product tanker . The vessel, managed and…
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Three crew confirmed kidnapped from bunkering vessel
Three crewmembers are confirmed to have been kidnapped by pirates from the Togo-flagged bunkering vessel which was boarded last week,…
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Bunkering vessel hijacked in Gulf of Guinea
The piracy situation in the Gulf of Guinea continues to be critical with yet another hijacking incident occurring near south…
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Five crew kidnapped off Nigeria
Criminal syndicates are trawling the seas off West Africa, swooping for kidnap-for-ransom targets with security firms describing the current risk…
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West Africa kidnap risk profile deemed critical
Shipping has been warned active criminal syndicates are trawling the seas off West Africa looking for easy ransom targets. Two…
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UK special forces storm Navios tanker after suspected hijacking
UK special forces arrested seven stowaways onboard 2011-built 75,000 dwt LR tanker near the Isle of Wight for suspected hijacking activities. According…
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LNG carrier crew member kidnapped in Equatorial Guinea
The 2003-built 138,000 cu m LNG carrier , owned by Golar LNG Partners, was boarded by pirates on Saturday while…
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Parakou Shipping tanker boarded by pirates off Togo
Product tanker was boarded by pirates when it was sailing off the south of Lome, Togo on Friday. Maritime security…
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Robberies on the rise in the Philippines
With more ships calling the Philippines this year to carry out crew changes there has been a concurrent rise in…
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Same armed guard who took Eagle Bulk crew hostage takes over another vessel
The armed guard who held the crew of the Eagle Bulk controlled Jaeger supramax last month has done it again.…
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Shots fired in confusing Somali boarding incident
Confusion surrounds the 1994-built 8,100 dwt chemical tanker with security firms having differing views whether or not this vessel is…
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Three men fined in Nigeria as new anti-piracy laws take effect
A new anti-piracy law in Nigeria has delivered its first results. A court in Port Harcourt has fined three men…
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Armed guarding shouldn’t be cheap. It should be expensive
James Wilkes from Gray Page writes today about the dangerously low price levels private maritime security companies are offering. Rolls-Royce…
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Details emerge of how a disgruntled armed guard took control of an Eagle Bulk supramax for three days
On Friday NASDAQ-listed Eagle Bulk released brief details of a remarkable hostage situation onboard one of its supramaxes, which saw…
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