A federal court in Lagos, Nigeria, has found ten individuals guilty of hijacking a foreign-flagged fishing vessel and imposed a 12-year prison sentence on each of the def ..
Tag: piracy
Praesidium International reports that a containership suffered damage to its bridge and accommodation areas during an attack by pirates in the Gulf of Guinea off Bonny, N ..
The waters off Mozambique are becoming a major new security hotspot in the Indian Ocean. An Islamist insurrection in northern Mozambique that the government seems powerle ..
UK-based maritime security consultancy Protection Vessels International (PVI) has joined a task force consisting of more than one hundred organisations from across the ma ..
Netherlands-based De Poli Tankers has confirmed via social media that all 15 seafarers who were abducted by pirates from its vessel Davide B in the Gulf of Guinea on Marc ..
Netherlands-based De Poli Tankers has confirmed that 15 people were kidnapped following a pirate attack on one of its vessels in the Gulf of Guinea late last week. The in ..
Dryad Global reports that five fishermen were abducted from a vessel in the Gulf of Guinea off Tema, Ghana, on Wednesday, May 19. The Ghanaian-flagged Atlantic Princess w ..
Three incidents of armed robbery were reported on board ships while underway in the eastbound lane of the Traffic Separation Scheme (TSS) in the Singapore Strait, the Reg ..
Authorities in the UK have arrested seven people in connection with a failed attempt to seize control of a cargo vessel in the English Channel earlier this week. The susp ..
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