Thursday, December 31, 2009
End of Year Somali Piracy Statistics
Thanks to J. Peter Pham for the information ...
International Maritime Bureau records that 214 ships were attacked in the waters off the Horn of Africa this year, with 47 successfully hijacked ... there were 111 attacks in 2008 in comparison.
That piracy remains a profitable enterprise (so long as there are no serious sanctions against it)--he reports an $8 million ransom for the Chinese cargo ship MV De Xin Hai and the Singaporean boxship MV Kota Wojar seized near the Seychelles ...
No sign that there will be any let-up in 2010 ...
International Maritime Bureau records that 214 ships were attacked in the waters off the Horn of Africa this year, with 47 successfully hijacked ... there were 111 attacks in 2008 in comparison.
That piracy remains a profitable enterprise (so long as there are no serious sanctions against it)--he reports an $8 million ransom for the Chinese cargo ship MV De Xin Hai and the Singaporean boxship MV Kota Wojar seized near the Seychelles ...
No sign that there will be any let-up in 2010 ...
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