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Down of the actions of marine piracy
"If the naval presence is reduced or if the ships diminish their vigilance - Mukundan (IMB admonishes) - the number of attacks will go up to the last levels"
April 16, 2013
In the first trimester of this year the number of assaults of pirates to the ships is diminished to 66 regarding 102 incidents recorded all over the world in the same period of 2012. The International Maritime Bureau (IMB) has announced that in the first three months of the 2013 they have been altogether the four seized ships, 51 those boarded, while seven ships have been object of firearm blows and four have quickly an attempt of attack. Seventy-five marine they are taken hostage, 14 are seized and a marine one is killed.
The world-wide area in which the elevated number has happened more than incidents is the Gulf of Guinea, where they are profitable some famous 15, included three seizures, of which 11 incidents happened in Nigeria. Others three incidents in West Africa have happened in Ivory Coast, while in the region of the East Africa, in Somalia are recorded five incidents. In the Indian Ocean, against two ships they have been exploded firearm blows.
"Even if the number of marked actions of piracy in Somalia remarkablly is diminished - it has found the director of the IMB, Pettengal Mukundan - us cannot be space for the self-satisfaction. The decrease of attacks recorded has had to the proattive naval actions against sospette teams of pirates, to the employment on contract of armed staff of safety and to the put measures of prevention in existence from the mercantile ships, as from last recommendations of the Best Practices Management. If the naval presence will be reduced or if the ships diminish their vigilance, the number of attacks will go up to the last levels".
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In the first trimester of this year the number of assaults of pirates to the ships is diminished to 66 regarding 102 incidents recorded all over the world in the same period of 2012. The International Maritime Bureau (IMB) has announced that in the first three months of the 2013 they have been altogether the four seized ships, 51 those boarded, while seven ships have been object of firearm blows and four have quickly an attempt of attack. Seventy-five marine they are taken hostage, 14 are seized and a marine one is killed.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
