Piracy News

  The ICC International Maritime Bureau is calling for a global reporting system in the wake of an alarming uptick in the number of piracy and armed

The suspected mastermind behind the hijacking of an Orkim product tanker earlier this year off Malaysia has been arrested outside Indonesia’s capital

By Drazen Jorgic NAIROBI, Aug 28 (Reuters) – An Iranian fishing vessel and its crew have escaped after being held captive for five months by Somali

  By Keith Wallis SINGAPORE, Aug 26 (Reuters) – Malaysia and Indonesia are deploying rapid reaction teams to combat a soaring number of attacks on

  Local authorities are reporting 6 pirate attacks in just two days eastbound lane of the Traffic Separation Scheme (TSS) in the Straits of Malacca and

  HAMBURG, Aug 24 (Reuters) – An international maritime tribunal on Monday rejected Italy’s request that India provisionally release two

  Regional piracy watchdog ReCAAP has confirmed another fuel oil heist in the Malacca Strait over the weekend. ReCAAP says it was alerted Friday by the

  A new report published Wednesday by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) International Maritime Bureau (IMB) highlights a continuing trend in

  An informal survey of convicted Somali pirates is shedding new light into their motivations, attitudes towards piracy, and what has been the biggest

Ivory Coast is considering launching a satellite to combat security threats from pirates in the Gulf of Guinea and Islamist militants in the West African

The hijacked oil tanker Orkim Harmony has been released by pirates, who fled in the ship's rescue boat, Malaysian navy and maritime officials said on

  KUALA LUMPUR, June 18 (Reuters) – A Malaysian naval vessel has made contact with the pirates onboard hijacked tanker Orkim Harmony and is trying

  Three commercial ships were boarded by pirates within just three hours of each other in Straits of Malacca and Singapore (SOMS), the ReCAAP Information

A small oil tanker was hijacked off the southeast coast of Malaysia over the weekend in the second such incident in the same area this month, raising further

The sister vessel of a Malaysian registered product tanker hijacked by bunker pirates off Malaysia earlier this month has gone missing. The ReCAAP Information

The maritime advocacy group Ocean's Beyond Piracy has released its fifth annual State of Maritime Piracy Report, analyzing the human and economic impacts of

A Singapore-registered petroleum product tanker was hit by pirates late Saturday night while underway in the Strait of Malacca. According to the regional

A small coastal tanker is hijacked by pirates in South East Asia every two weeks on average, according to a new report from the International Maritime Bureau

A group of pirates hijacked a product tanker off the coast of Indonesia earlier this month before making off with the ship’s cargo. The hijacking was

A MSC containership and a bulk carrier have been attacked in two separate but possibly related incidents in Southeast Asia waters off the coast of Indonesia,