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Nigeria vows to free sailors from Swiss pirate attack ship

September 25, 2018 / by Sherritta Ablah-Wetsi / Piracy / 0 comments

Nigerian authorities on Monday said they were working to find and free 12 crew members of a Swiss-registered cargo ship who were kidnapped by sea pirates at the weekend. The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) said it had “commenced search (and) rescue operations” for the abducted crew from the MV Glarus. The ship […]

Report: Pirates Kidnap 12 Crew off Nigeria

September 24, 2018 / by Sherritta Ablah-Wetsi / Piracy / 0 comments

Image Courtesy: Op Atalanta/EUNAVFOR Twelve crew members of a Swiss bulk carrier MV Glarus were taken hostage while in Nigerian waters on September 22, Reuters reports citing a statement from the ship’s operator Massoel Shipping. Based on the statement, the ship was underway, loaded with a cargo of bulk wheat, around 45 nautical miles southwest […]

Tanker with 19 Crew Missing in Piracy-Plagued West African Waters

August 22, 2018 / by Sherritta Ablah-Wetsi / Piracy / 0 comments

MarineTraffic.com A tanker vessel with 19 crew members on board, most of them Georgians, has gone missing in pirate-plagued waters off Gabon in West Africa and no word has been heard from it for a week, the ship’s managers and the crew agency said on Wednesday. Communication was lost with the Panama-registered Pantelena at about […]

Petro-Piracy Returns to Gulf of Guinea

August 3, 2018 / by Kuukua Bentil / Piracy / 0 comments

Nigerian pirates have taken 35 seafarers from vessels in the Gulf of Guinea from January through June 2018, according to a report from security services company EOS Risk Group. The number of sailors removed from vessels and held for ransom was the same as witnessed during the first half of 2017. However, petro-piracy, which had […]

The war on ocean piracy just got some fresh help from space

July 23, 2018 / by Sherritta Ablah-Wetsi / Piracy / 0 comments

A surveillance system that can track ships and boats all over the world in real time and can be accessed from an iPhone has gone online. Italian firm Leonardo launched its SEonSE (Smart Eyes on the Seas) platform Tuesday at the Farnborough International Airshow in the U.K. The defense company claims the new platform makes […]

ReCAAP: Piracy Incident Reported in First Half of 2018 at Lowest Level in 10 Years

July 19, 2018 / by Sherritta Ablah-Wetsi / Piracy / 0 comments

By Avigator Thailand / Shutterstock The number of maritime piracy incidents reported to the ReCAAP Information Sharing Centre in the first half of 2018 fell to its lowest number in the past 10 years, the agency reported Tuesday. From January to June 2018, ReCAAP had a total of 40 incidents reported, of which 29 were […]

Maritime Piracy: Is there conspiracy against Nigeria?

July 12, 2018 / by Sherritta Ablah-Wetsi / Piracy / 0 comments

There are indications that the upcoming security report on Nigeria’s marine space may worsen with operators accusing international interest groups of mischief over the report. But Nigerian maritime industry stakeholders also indicated that despite the controversial nature of the figures on piracy attacks the number of incidences would certainly increase and Nigeria would maintain lead […]