Piracy

In an emailed statement today from the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, a.k.a MEND, the Americans kidnapped from the Edison Chouest-owned

By Gary Robertson NORFOLK, Va., Nov 14 (Reuters) – The last of the Somali pirates convicted of killing four Americans aboard a yacht sailing off the Horn

On Tuesday November 12, a group of Royal Netherlands Marine Corps parachutists executed a counter piracy parachute jump exercise while in the Gulf of

Nigerian pirates have released two U.S. sailors kidnapped from an oil supply vessel off the coast of Nigeria last month, the U.S. State Department has

Two tanker hijackings in about a month in the South China Sea and Malacca Strait, a route for about a quarter of sea borne oil trade, have fuelled fears piracy

By Joseph Akwiri MOMBASA, Kenya, Nov 11 (Reuters) – Nine suspected pirates have been arrested on suspicion of trying to hijack a Danish refined oil and

The International Maritime Bureau's Piracy Reporting Centre reports that 10 armed pirates boarded and hijacked a product tanker Thursday while underway

The European Union's Naval Force Somali reported Thursday morning of two piracy incidents taking place off the coast of Somali this week, bringing the total

A Ukrainian warship this week thwarted a pirate attack on a vessel in the Gulf of Aden, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence said in a statement on

The U.S. trial of a Somali man accused of piracy off the Horn of Africa began on Monday, with prosecutors portraying him as a ransom-hungry negotiator and his

Pirates off the Horn of Africa pocket as little as 0.01 percent of ransoms, which they tend to spend on alcohol, expensive cars and prostitutes, while

So reports have been circulating this week quoting a Merchant Navy Officer who claims that her vessel's shipboard security personnel used Britney Spears music

In speaking with sources in Nigeria this week, one thing that has become abundantly clear… the business of fuel theft is the primary driver of piracy in

“Things are definitely getting more intense here,” remarked one of our sources working offshore Nigeria this afternoon. A security boat manned with

As first reported by gCaptain on Wednesday… ABUJA/WASHINGTON, Oct 24 (Reuters) – Pirates attacked an oil supply vessel off the Nigerian coast and

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation has decided today to reclassify the crimes which have been charged against the “Arctic 30”

By Joseph Akwiri MOMBASA, Kenya, Oct 23 (Reuters) – Four Somali pirates were sentenced to seven years each in prison on Wednesday by a Kenyan court that

Combined Task Force (CTF) 151, a multi-national naval partnership engaged with countering the threat of piracy in the Indian Ocean successfully apprehended a

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, Oct 17 (Reuters) – Pirate attacks off Nigeria’s coast have jumped by a third this year with ships passing through West

BRUSSELS, Oct 14 (Reuters) – Belgium has arrested a suspected Somali pirate leader believed to have earned millions of dollars in ransom payments over