west africa piracy

Shipping association BIMCO is stepping up its calls for naval support to combat piracy in the Gulf of Guinea after an annual report the International Maritime

The EU, China, and the U.S. need to step up their support of counter-piracy operations in the Gulf of Guinea amid a scourge of attacks and kidnappings in the

Pirates kidnapped all 11 crew, including eight Polish nationals, from the Pomerenia Sky on October 28 as the ship was bound for the Nigerian port of Onne.

Pirates in a speed boat chased and fired on an LNG tanker last week off the coast of Bonny, Nigeria, the IMB Piracy Reporting Center has confirmed. The

WARSAW/ABUJA, Oct 29 (Reuters) – Pirates boarded a container ship off the coast of Nigeria, seizing 11 crew including eight from Poland, the

A product tanker was attacked by a group of armed pirates on Monday while at an anchorage off the coast of Guinea in West Africa.  The IMB Piracy

By Marta Ardashelia TBILISI, Aug 24 (Reuters) – A tanker with 19 crew members on board has docked at a port in Togo after going missing for over a

By Angus MacSwan DAKAR, Aug 22 (Reuters) – A tanker vessel with 19 crew members on board, most of them Georgians, has gone missing in pirate-plagued

By Elisha Bala-Gbogbo (Bloomberg) — Nigeria’s oil wells may be flowing again, but the country’s largest operator says attacks continue to put a brake

Pirates have released eleven hostages kidnapped from a Dutch cargo ship off the coast of Nigeria last month.  Their release was confirmed Wednesday

One of twelve crew members thought to be kidnapped by pirates off the coast Nigeria has been found safe aboard the vessel, ship manager ForestWave said

Suspected pirates kidnapped twelve crew members from a Dutch cargo ship off the coast of Nigeria on Saturday, the ship manager confirmed on Sunday. The attack

Pirates in the Gulf of Guinea have released a Panama-flagged oil tanker and its 22 Indian crew members which they had hijacked off Benin last week, the

An oil products tanker with 22 Indian crew members has been missing since Friday in the Gulf of Guinea, the manager of the vessel has confirmed, sparking fears

Pirates have kidnapped ten crew members from a bulk carrier off the coast of Nigeria, the IMB Piracy Reporting Centre and other sources have confirmed. The

BERLIN, Oct 24 (Reuters) – Six crew from a German container vessel have been kidnapped in Nigerian waters, a shipping company said on Tuesday. Four of

Pirates purportedly kidnapped five crew members from a cargo ship off the coast of Nigeria on Sunday. The International Maritime Bureau’s Piracy

By Elisha Bala-Gbogbo (Bloomberg) — The Nigerian navy said pirate attacks in the country’s territorial waters fell 68 percent year-on-year in the first

Pirates and armed robbers on the high seas attacked 43 ships and captured 58 crew in the first quarter of 2017, a slight increase from the same

By Joe Bavier ABIDJAN, May 2 (Reuters) – Armed attacks on ships in West African waters nearly doubled in 2016, with pirates increasingly focused on