the number of actions of piracy against the ships has reached the level more low of last the six years



The International Maritime Bureau (IMB) of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has announced that in the 2013 number of actions of piracy against the last ships it has reached the level more low of the six years having been itself verified all over the world 264 attacks, with a bending of the -11% regarding 297 in 2012 and with a decrease of the -40% regarding the peak recorded in 2011.

Last year beyond 300 people they are taken hostage by pirates (585 in 2012) and 21 has remained hurt (32); 12 ships (28 are seized), 202 are boarded (174) and 22 have been object of blows of firearm (28). Moreover 28 attempts have been marked others of attack. In a 2013 marine one she is killed by Nigerian pirates (six marine ones killed in 2012) and 36 people have been kidnapped with the objective to demand ransoms (26 in 2012).

The director of the IMB, Pottengal Mukundan, has explained that in the 2013 decrease of the piracy actions world-wise somali to wide of the coasts of the East Africa is determined essentially by the decrease of the assaults of piracy and has emphasized that the pirates somalis are discouraged by a combination of factors, between which the main one is the action of the international navies, but also from the security measures assumed from the mercantile ships, the employment of private teams of safety on board of the ships and from the stabilizing infuence of the government of the Somalia. "He is indispensable - he has found Mukundan - to continue the international efforts kinsmen in order to face piracy somali. Every satisfaction in this phase could give again breath to the activity of the pirates".

In 2013 they are be 15 attacks it marked to wide of Somalia regarding 75 in 2012 and to 237 in 2011 and 15 incidents last year attributed to pirates somalis, that they represent the minor number of assaults from 2006 when 10 happened some, include two seized ships that are released within a single day as a result of it sets in action realized from the navies for their liberation. In the area, moreover, eight ships have been object of firearm blows.

A region particularly to risk is that of the West Africa, where last year 51 has been marked attacks, of which 31 realized from Nigerian pirates who have taken hostage 49 people and they have seized 36, figures that are elevated by 2008. Moreover the range of the Nigerian pirates has arrived until waters to the wide one of the Gabon, the Ivory Coast and the Togo, where at least five of the seven seizures of marked ships in the region are considered responsible. Wide Al of the coast of same the Nigeria the seizures of two ships have happened, 13 ships are boarded and against others 13 are exploded firearm blows.

Last year in waters malaysians the taken seizures of two product have happened tanker with 27 marine ones hostage. In Indonesian waters one has happened instead an elevated number of thefts mainly on ships to the anchorage, incidents of low level - it has emphasized the IMB - not confrontabili with the most serious incidents happened to the wide one of Africa even if they have represented beyond 50% of all the ships boarded in 2013 and even if these holdups have recorded an increase for the fourth consecutive year. In particular, more than a third party of the incidents in Indonesia they are recorded in the course of the last trimester of 2013.

Regarding it attacks to it happened n 2013 in India and Bangladesh, the opportunistic IMB has defined them "of low level and". In particular, beginning from the 2010 incidents to wide India have recorded annually an increase reaching the 14 in 2013, while the number of those happened in Bangladesh - thanks to the activity of control put into effect from local Guard Costiera - has been maintained next to about 12 per year during the last few years.