Piracy News

Within the Action Plan to promote this year’s World Maritime Day theme – Piracy: Orchestrating the Response, a meeting took place at IMO

From Central Command Public Affairs TAMPA, Fla. (NNS) — At approximately 1 a.m. EST today, while negotiations were ongoing to secure the release of four

Based on today’s tragic events, I would like to update my previous ROE discussion with the following statement: Anyone traveling through the Arabian Sea

gCaptain just got the phone call we hoped we would never get.  The 4 American sailors from the sailboat Quest have been killed by their Somali captors.

Sorry guys, but the news we got regarding the USS Momsen being at the scene of the hijacking was totally incorrect.  The Momsen and her crew on homeward bound

In 2006, my parents and I were sailing from the Maldives, an archipelago off the southwestern tip of India, to the Port of Mina Raysut, in Salalah, Oman.  My

Summary: (source: ONI Maritime OPINTEL Report) NIGERIA: Chemical tanker was approached 10 Feb, approximately 50NM off Lagos, Nigeria. INDIAN OCEAN: Crude oil

gCaptain sources have reported this morning that S/V Quest has been attacked by pirates in the Indian Ocean, and her crew of 4 Americans are currently being

LONDON (Dow Jones)–Insurers in London’s financial district are finalizing plans to create a private fleet of armed patrol boats in the Gulf of

Just in from the Office of Naval Intelligence: At 1323Z a hijacked sailing yacht and possible pirate mother ship were located at 1800N 06102E approximately

Convicted Somali pirate, 21-year-old Abduwali Muse, was sentenced today in New York to 405 months, nearly 34 years, in federal prison for his participation in

A request for assistance from the South Korean merchant vessel Yong Jin in the Indian Ocean on 10th February led to Combined Maritime Forces (CMF) warship HMS

-Via the International Maritime Organization website Failure to implement fully the IMO guidance, including the industry-developed best management practices,

Just in from the Office of Naval Intelligence – UPDATE Bulk Carrier M/V SININ has been confirmed hijacked at 1548Z on 12 February in position 201409N

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP)–A Malaysian court Friday charged seven suspected Somali pirates for firing at Malaysian navy commandos in a Gulf of Aden raid, under

Editors note: The following statement is a response issued by Neptune Maritime Security, a British security firm specializing in safeguarding crew, cargo and

Editors Note: The following statement was made by INTERTANKO’s Managing Director, Joe Angelo in response to the hijacking of the VLCC Irene SL, with

Summary of maritime crime developments and incidents, week of 3 February 2011: CAMEROON: 11 Cameroonian officials were kidnapped by armed militants

EU NAVFOR has reported that at approximately 1000Z on 9 February, the VLCC M/V Irene SL was pirated approximately 350 nautical miles South East of Muscat in

EUNAVFOR has reported that in the early hours of 8 February, the Oil Tanker MV SAVINA CAYLYN was pirated approximately 670 nautical miles East of Socotra