Recrudescence of the number of actions of piracy against the ships in the first six months of 2015



In the first semester of this year a recrudescence of the number of actions of piracy against the ships has happened. Altogether 134 incidents have happened all over the world, with an increment of +16% regarding 166 in the first half of 2014. In the solo first trimester of the 2015 54 incidents have been marked, with an increase of +10% on the same period last year, and in the quarter next the number is gone up to 80 incidents, with an increase of +19% on the period April-june of 2014.

The International Maritime Bureau (IMB) has announced that in the first six months of the 2015 pirates they have boarded 106 ships, has seized 13 and has tried to attack of others 15. In the period marine ones are taken hostage 250, 14 are assaulted, 10 have been kidnapped, nine are hurt and a marine one is killed.

The relationship on the actions of diffuse piracy today from the IMB evidences that in the Asian south-east it continues the trend of the seizures of small oil tankers employed in coastal traffics, with average of attacks every two weeks. In the second solo trimester of this year five of these ships are seized. The IMB has specified that however the cooperation between the regional authorities is giving yields and that the location of boats about to carrying out attacks to the ships has allowed to blanket the assaults. In particular, to the wide one of Vietnam it is characterized and stop a boat with on board eight responsible Indonesian pirates to have seized last month an oil tanker malaysian. Moreover the IMB has expressed appreciation for the sentence by the authorities malaysians of nine Indonesian pirates who were arrested after to have seized a product tanker berthed to the wide one of Johor.

The relationship of the IMB explains that in the first half of 2015 beyond a third party of the incidents it has happened to the wide one of the Indonesian coasts and limited intensities mostly to the fulfillment of thefts have been be a matter of assaults of lowland on the ships. Moreover a meaningful increase of the number of incidents to the wide one of Bangladesh and, in particular, of Chittagong with 10 incidents happened in according to trimester of this year respect to a single incident is recorded in the quarter precedence. Also for these last ones it has been be a matter of thefts completed on the ships.

In the first semester of this year to the wide one of Nigeria 11 incidents have happened. The relationship evidences that the fact that in according to trimester of 2015 is not recorded incidents to the wide one of the Somalia, even if is comforting the IMB has restated that it lasts the uncertainty on the level of safety in the Horn of Africa and has exhorted the commanders of the ships to maintain the vigilance high when they journey in these waters.