Unchanged in the 2015 number of actions of piracy against the ships



In the last year the number of the actions of piracy against the ships and their crews has remained unchanged, even if a reduction of the incidents in the more critical areas is recorded. PRC) of the International Maritime Bureau (IMB has announced the Piracy Reporting Centre (), independent organism to which is notified the assaults lead against the ships all over the world, specifying that last year 246 incidents have happened altogether, in more regarding 2014.

In the 2015 number of ships boarded is gone up of +11% to 203. A ship has been object of gunshots and others 27 you assault are blanketed. In the course of it attacks the pirates have killed a marine one and they have hurt at least 14. The number of kidnappings, with members of the crews that are captured with the scope to ask a ransom, is doubled going up from nine in 2014 to 19 in 2015, kidnappings that have been all completed within five attack happened to the wide one of Nigeria. The total number of the seized ships instead is diminished coming down from 21 in 2015 to 15 in 2015 and is dropped also the number of marine withheld hostage on their ships, passed from 442 in 2014 to 271 in the next year.

The IMB has communicated that in the last trimester of 2015 they have not been marked seizures of ships and has explained that this has had in particular to the decrease of attacks against the small tankers that happen near the coasts of the Asian south-east, last of which is completed in August 2015. The director of the IMB, Pottengal Mukundan, has praised the decided actions in order to contrast piracy assumed from the Indonesian authorities and malaysians that have carried to the arrest and to the sentence of two bands that seized oil tankers. However Mukundan has exhorted to maintain to high the level of the vigilance and the measures anti-piracy in the area, in which they happen the majority of the incidents that happen all over the world.

The IMB has emphasized that another area particularly to continuous risk to being that of Nigeria, where not even marked many of the happened incidents do not come, so as that of Vietnam, where the number of incidents is gone up by seven in 2014 to 27 in 2015, incidents represented generally from pilferages store clerks on the ships berthed in the area, of which very 15 happened last year near the single port of Vung Tau. In China four incidents in December 2015 are recorded, first happened after along time. In Bangladesh the number of incidents of light entity is diminished, that it is come down to 11 in 2015 regarding 21 in the year precedence.

In 2015, at last, they are not recorded attacks of coming pirates from the Somalia, "State - but it has evidenced Mukundan - that remains fragile and where the possibility of I attack remains elevated. A single seizure carried to term with success will be enough - it has found the director of the IMB - in order to cancel all this that is made and to rinfocolare this criminal activity".