Drastic decrease of the number of the piracy actions



Last year the number of assaults of the pirates to the ships all over the world has recorded a drastic decrease coming down to 297 regarding 439 attacks in 2011. The International Maritime Bureau (IMB) of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC has announced) specifying that, even if in the 2012 a strong reduction of the activity of piracy has happened somali, the areas of the western East Africa and remain most dangerous with a total of 150 attack last year happened.

In the 2012 all world they have been the 174 ships boarded from the pirates. Twenty-eight ships are seized and as many are hit with firearms. The tried ones attack have been altogether 67. Last year the number of people taken hostage on board of the ships is come down to 585 from 802 in 2011, while others 26 have been kidnapped for the sake of racketeering in Nigeria. Six members of the crews are killed and 32 are hurt or assaulted.

"The data of the IMB on piracy - the director of the Bureau has commented, Pottengal Mukundan - fortunately show a reduction of the seizures and of it attacks to the ships. But the crews must continue to remain policemen, in particular in highly dangerous waters to wide of the western East Africa and".

Last year in Somalia and the Gulf of Aden 75 are recorded alone attack to the ships regarding 237 in 2011, pairs to 25% of the total incidents all over the world. The number of seizures somalis has been halved from 28 in 2011 to 14 in 2012. Al 31 last December, the pirates somalis hostage held still 104 marine on eight ships and others 23 to earth. The IMB has emphasized that the action of Marine Militari in the area, with attacks estimates and participations determined against the ships mother used by the pirates, let alone the presence of private armed teams on board of the ships and the application of the measures in order to discourage in existence attacks it put from the crews, discourages the activity of the pirates to wide of the coast the oriental of Africa. "The constant presence of Marine Militari - it has emphasized Mukundan - is essential in order to guarantee the control of piracy somali. These steps ahead - it has explained - could be easy made useless if the military ships came retreats from the zone".

Regarding the West Africa, piracy is in increase in the Gulf of Guinea with 58 incidents recorded in 2012, of which 10 seizures, and with 207 members of the taken crews hostage. The IMB has evidenced as the pirates who operate in this area are particularly rape having used firearms in at least 37 of attack. The Benin - it has specified the Bureau - constitutes an exception and shows a fort decrease: from 20 incidents (between which eight seizures) in 2011 to the single ones two (of which a seizure) in 2012. Last year in Nigeria 27 incidents have happened, with four seized ships, 13 boarded, eight hit with firearms and with two attempts of I attack, while only 10 incidents have been marked in the area in 2011, between which two seizures. Also the Togo has recorded an increase: from five incidents in 2011 to 15 in 2012, between which four seizures. For the area to the wide one of the Ivory Coast, in the 2012 five incidents have been marked respect to in 2011.

Last year in the Asian south-east four ships are seized, between which a tanker malaysian that successively is seized newly in Vietnam in the course of the last trimester.

In the Indonesian archipelago 81 signallings of pilferages are recorded, that they more represent than a quarter of the total incidents in 2012, and thirty ships are attacked in the course of the last trimester of the year, while 73 boardings are carried out and 47 members of the crews are taken hostage. Fourteen incidents have been marked to Belawan by berthed or moored ships.