BW Offshore has confirmed that a kidnapping incident occurred on one of its floating production storage and offloading vessels (FPSO) in Nigerian waters on Thursday, July ..
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The Nigerian Navy has confirmed that eight sailors who were kidnapped by pirates from a containership in the Gulf of Guinea off the coast of Benin in April 2020 have ..
Dryad Global reports that a group of pirates had boarded a product tanker in the Gulf of Guinea off the coast of Nigeria and abducted 10 of its crew on Thursday, April ..
A group of armed men boarded a fishing vessel and abducted six of its 30-strong crew in the Gulf of Guinea off Benin on Wednesday, June 24. The attack on the ..
Crewmembers and security personnel embarked on a commercial tanker were able to successfully prevent pirates from boarding their vessel off the coast of Yemen on Sunday, ..
During April 14 to 20, 2020, four incidents of piracy and armed robbery against ships in Asia were reported to the Information Sharing Centre (ISC) of the Regional ..
One pirate attack and 10 robbery indicents on ships in Asia occurred in May 2020, the Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery against ships ..
The Nigerian Navy has successfully rescued all 18 crewmembers of a Chinese-flagged fishing vessel that had been hijacked by pirates in the Gulf of Guinea. The incident ..
A containership anchored in the Gulf of Guinea off Benin’s Port of Cotonou was boarded by pirates, who afterward kidnapped eight of the vessel’s crew, on ..
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