Many foreign navies help reduce Somalia piracy in 2014: experts

Details: Category: Pirateria; Published on Saturday, 27 December 2014 04:11; Hits: 2200

Many foreign navies help reduce Somalia piracy in 2014: experts

by Njoroge Kaburo NAIROBI (Xinhua) -- Global efforts to combat piracy in the Horn of Africa region have helped in reducing piracy in 2014, including cooperation amongst the navies operating in the region.

Three years ago, senior naval officers said Somali pirates had created a lucrative business thriving as a result of the lawlessness inside the war-torn Horn of Africa nation, which had proved to be the greatest threat to international peace and regional trade.

The spate of hijackings along the volatile coastline had made maritime experts to consider a raft of radical measures, including a total ban on the use of the East Africa coastline, especially the Gulf of Eden, in

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Attacks soar in Asian seas as pirates bare their fangs

Details: Category: Pirateria; Published on Saturday, 27 December 2014 04:06; Hits: 2160

Attacks soar in Asian seas as pirates bare their fangs Jermyn Chow, The Strait Times/ANN, Singapore

Piracy in Asian waters has hit its highest levels this year since a piracy watch centre started keeping tabs in 2006.

There have been 169 actual or attempted sea attacks reported so far this year, predominantly in Indonesia, the South China Sea, the Strait of Malacca and Strait of Singapore, according to the ReCAAP Information-Sharing Centre.

The number of incidents, logged from January to last month, has surpassed full-year figures in the last five years, and the previous record of 167 in 2010.Sea robbers are not only becoming more active, but also more daring and violent.Piracy incidents are categorised from three (less significant) to one (very

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