Despite the significant decrease in accidents that have occurred in the last quarter of the year, in the whole of 2025 the acts of piracy against ships increased by +18% having been 137 compared to 116 in 2024. In the course of these assaults, 121 ships boarded (94 in 2024), four ships were seized (6), four were shot (3) and ten attempts were made to attack ten other units naval (13). In the course of these accidents, four seafarers were killed. were injured (1), three were attacked (0), ten threatened (12), 25 seafarers were abducted (12) and 46 were taken into custody hostage (126).

The Piracy Reporting Centre of the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) announced that in the attacks conducted as a whole, the Last year, firearms were used in 42 assaults (26 in 2024) and edged weapons were used in 33 (39).

Of the 137 total attacks, 50 were conducted against ships bulk carriers (50), 41 against tankers (23), 20 against container ships (11) and 26 against other vessels (32). In addition, in the Singapore Straits alone, there were 80 attacks (43), 21 attacks were carried out in the Gulf of Guinea (18), in Indonesia nine (23) and in Somali waters five (8).

In the fourth quarter of 2025 alone, acts of piracy were there were a total of 21 compared to 37 in the corresponding period of the previous year. The marked reduction was mainly driven by the decline in attacks against bulk with eight reported incidents (20). The accidents that have involved were nine (6) tankers, those with the object of the container ships two (3) as well as accidents with vessels of other type (8). Acts of violence are also decreasing against the crews of the ships which have dropped to 16 compared to 25 in the period October-December of 2024.