Decreasing it attacks it of the pirates to the ships



In the first trimester of trimester of this year 102 have happened assault of the pirates to the ships all over the world regarding 142 been necessary in the same period of 2011. The International Maritime Bureau (IMB) of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC has announced) specifying that 11 ships are seized, with 212 members of the taken crew hostage and four marine victims of a murder, 45 ships are boarded, 32 ships have been object of attempts of attack and 14 ships have been object of gunshots.

The IMB has evidenced the increment of the incidents happened in West Africa. In particular, in the first three months of 2012 in Nigeria ten have happened assault, the same number of all attack to it carried out from the pirates in the region in the entire 2011. Moreover - it has specified the Bureau - I attack carried out in the Benin neighbor is attributed to Nigerian pirates. "Nigerian piracy - it has found the director of the Piracy Reporting Centre of the IMB, Pottengal Mukundan - is increasing to its incidence and its range. At least you are of the eleven incidents recorded in Nigeria has happened to advanced distances to 70 miles nautical from the coast, that it suggests that they are used fishings boat which ships mother in order to attack positioned marine means more far away anchor".

The assaults of the Nigerian pirates have been also particularly rape and have caused the dead women of two marine boarded ones on a portarinfuse attacked to 110 miles nautical to the wide one of Lagos. To moreover it attacks it realized in coastal waters of Nigeria have determined kidnapping at least three members of the crews of ships to the anchor. "Even if the number of the marked incidents in Nigeria is still inferior to that of the seized Somalia and ships they remain under the control of the pirates for days rather than for months - it has observed Mukundan - the level of violence in confronts of the crews dangerously is elevated".

The IMB has emphasized as however the Somalia remains a zone to high risk, although the minor number of incidents happened in the area. In fact the continuous Somalia to being the more dangerous region having totaled 43 attacks, included the seizure of nine ships and 144 members of the crews. The IMB has evidenced that four elderflowers and a fishing boat are seized also, ideal units for being employees which ships mother. Even if the number of incidents happened in the first trimester of 2012 has turned out inferior to that of the first three months of 2011, period in which has been 97 incidents and 16 seizures - it has observed the International Maritime Bureau - "are improbable that the threat of piracy somali can be reduced in the short-mean term unless ulterior measures are not assumed". In particular - Mukundan has explained - the announcement of the European Union to widen the beam of own mission anti-piracy to the firm earth is another positive step that could ulteriorly put in crisis model of action of piracy somali". The IMB has remembered that on 31 March the pirates somalis stopped still under seizure 15 ships and 253 members of the crews, to which hostage joins to held others 49 marine ones to earth.

It has turned out in increase the number of attacks also in other world-wide regions, as in Indonesia where in the first three months of the 2012 18 are carried out last year assault respects to the five of the first trimester. In particular, in this region it attacks to it are turned against any type of ship mainly with the objective to depredate them. They have been the 15 ships boarded from the pirates, of which 13 to the anchor, one to the mooring and in navigation. Altogether marine ones are taken hostage five.