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Record of actions of piracy in the first trimester of this year
Assaulted 142 ships. The 596 marine ones held hostage from the pirates are very somalis
April 14, 2011
They do not mention to diminish the assaults of the pirates to the ships that, indeed, in the first trimester of this year have reached the number record of 142 attack all over the world happened. PRC) of the International Maritime Bureau (IMB has announced today the Piracy Reporting Centre () evidencing the increasing dangerousness of waters in front of the coast of the Somalia where 97 are put into effect assault regarding the 35 of the first trimester of 2010.
In the first three months of this year 18 ships are seized by the pirates, 344 marine ones are taken hostage and six have been kidnapped. Moreover 45 ships are boarded and 45 ships have been object of firearm blows. Seven marine ones are killed and 34 hurt.
Of the 18 seized ships, 15 are captured to east of the coast somali and in the Gulf of Aden. In this area 299 marine they are taken hostage and six have been kidnapped. Al 31 last March the 596 marine ones held hostage from the pirates were very somalis on board of 28 ships. The director of the IMB, Pottengal Mukundan, has evidenced the increasing violence which the pirates assault the ships in this E region have emphasized the particular vulnerability of the tankers that transport oil or other inflammable producing: "this year - it has explained - to the wide one of the Horn of Africa three great oil tankers of beyond 100.000 gross capacities in tons are seized. On a total of 97 ships attacked in the area, 37 were oil tankers and, of these, 20 had a gross capacity of beyond 100.000 tons".
In the other world-wide regions, in the first three months of 2011 to the wide one of Malaysia nine have happened attack, included the seizure of a tug and a barge to the wide one of the island of Tioman. Five you assault have happened in Nigeria, of which three to Lagos.
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They do not mention to diminish the assaults of the pirates to the ships that, indeed, in the first trimester of this year have reached the number record of 142 attack all over the world happened. PRC) of the International Maritime Bureau (IMB has announced today the Piracy Reporting Centre () evidencing the increasing dangerousness of waters in front of the coast of the Somalia where 97 are put into effect assault regarding the 35 of the first trimester of 2010.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
