Decrease of the -5% of the actions of piracy in the first nine months of 2014



In the first nine months of the 2014 it attacks it of the pirates to the ships all over the world have been 178, decreasing of the -5% regarding the same period last year. If the assaults are down (but not in the third trimester), the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) has manifested worry for the escalation of seizures of small tankers by armed bands in the Asian south-east.

"It is encouraging to over the last few years find the enormous decrease of the phenomenon of marine piracy and the armed assaults happened graces above all to the action of prevention of international Navy to wide of the East Africa and to the improvement of safety on board", the director of the IMB, Pottengal Mukundan has asserted, confronting the last data with the very 352 attacks recorded in the first nine months of 2011. "However - it has added - it has been a new worrisome increase of attacks against the small tankers that carry out cabotage in the Asian south-east. We advise in particular to these ships to maintain the vigilance in these waters high and to communicate to the Piracy Reporting Centre of the IMB all the small boats attack it and sospette".

The IMB has explained that to being taken more and more of sight in the Asian south-east are the small tankers that transport produced as diesel oil or light naphta: boarding the ships in sea the pirates hold the crew hostage for a short period of time while they unload partially in all the or cargo that then uses or sells.

In the course of the municipal assaults altogether in the world in the first nine months of this year the pirates have killed three marine ones, they have kidnapped five and they have taken hostage 369. Altogether 17 ships are seized, 124 are boarded some and 10 have been object of gunshots. Moreover us they have been 27 signallings of ulterior attempts of I attack. In the solo third trimester of the 2014 assaults they are piled to a total of 62 regarding 50 in the same period of 2013.

In the first nine months of this year in Indonesia 72 incidents have happened. In Somalia 10 have been some marked single and with this - it has emphasized the IMB - there is the risk that the international attention is distracted by the 40 hostages still stopped for the sake of racketeering from presumed pirates somalis. "Some of these members of the crews - it has evidenced Mukundan - are held captive by more four-year-old and the hope of an immediate release moves away". In Nigeria the number of marked incidents is come down remarkablly to single 13 regarding 29 in the first nine months last year, while in others you leave of the Gulf of Guinea the incidents are in increase: in the Ghana four regarding no incident in 2013 are recorded some.