Piracy

(Reuters) The thud of bullets smacking into his wooden fishing boat jolted captain John Freddy out of his afternoon nap. He saw one of his crew slumped dead

Pirates have released five Pakistani crew they kidnapped from an oil tanker off the Nigerian coast two weeks

West African heads of state will meet, maybe as soon as this month, to adopt a code to fight growing piracy in their coastal waters that would include use of

By Thomas Black June 3 (Bloomberg) — Boeing Co. expects governments combating pirates and drug runners on the open seas will create a new market for

An in-depth look at the spread of piracy across the oil-rich Gulf of

ABUJA, May 28 (Reuters) – Armed pirates attacked an oil products tanker off the coast of Nigeria in West Africa and abducted an unknown number of crew,

These images from EU NAVFOR do a good job of illustrating the spread of piracy from 2009 to 2011, then its retreat in 2012 and

The EU has pledged some $47 to strengthen counter piracy efforts in several Eastern and Southern African countries, the European Commission announced

The revelation this week that the owner of an Algerian cargo ship whose crew was held by Somali pirates paid them $2.6 million in ransom is yet another

The EU Naval Force (EUNAVFOR) has reiterated its warnings that Somali pirates are still determined to get out to sea and, if presented with an easy target,

Nigerian pirates have released five crewmembers kidnapped from the City of Xiamen containership during an April 25 attack about 100 miles off Nigeria’s

The official trailer for the new movie about the 2009 Maersk Alabama piracy incident, titled "Captain Phillips," has just

Britain to spend millions on bolstering Somalia's security forces and help boost radio communications along the Somali

Somali pirates have released six crewmembers from the Danish-flagged MV Leopard after more than two years in captivity.

ABUJA, April 29 (Reuters) – Pirates have kidnapped five crew members from a cargo ship off Nigeria, the vessel’s management company said on Monday,

An Indian anti-terrorism agency will investigate the case of two Italian marines accused of murdering two Indian fishermen, raising the possibility once more

The crew from Swedish Ocean Patrol Vessel HSwMS Carlskrona has been busy conducting counter piracy patrols along the coast of

Italy opposed on Tuesday India's decision to appoint its anti-terrorism agency to investigate the case of Italian marines accused of killing two fishermen,

By International Maritime Bureau London – The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) International Maritime Bureau’s (IMB) latest quarterly report

The video opens in the slums of Eastleigh, a sprawling suburb of Nairobi in Kenya and home to ‘the fixer,’ a man who the UK’s Channel 4