The sharp reduction in pirate activity off the Somali coast since 2010 has cut the annual cost (for anti-piracy measures) to shipping companies in half (to about $3 billion). That is a huge relief to the shipping companies, the sailors on those ships and the people of East Africa who saw imports get a bit more expensive to pay for the increased security costs.
This is all a big change from just a few years ago. In 2010 pirate activity had reached levels of activity not seen in over a century. But over the next three years the problem was fixed. By 2013 attacks on ships by Somali pirates had declined 95 percent from the 2010 peak and the activity is going lower in 2014.
Madrid, 22 ago.- El destacamento aéreo desplegado en la base de Yibuti, en la misión Atalanta de lucha contra la piratería en aguas del Índico, ha sustituido el avión de vigilancia marítima P-3 Orión por otro similar, ha informado hoy el Estado Mayor de la Defensa.
La nueva aeronave releva a la que ha estado operando en la zona desde su llegada el 23 de mayo y que ahora regresa a España para someterse a su mantenimiento programado, tras realizar más de 460 horas de vuelo en 34 misiones.
El teniente coronel Carlos Fernández-Llebrez recibió a la tripulación procedente del Grupo 22, perteneciente al Ala 11 con base en