The International Chamber of Commerce’s (ICC) International Maritime Bureau (IMB) announced that it received the lowest number of reported incidents for the first half of any year since 1994 – a testament to its pivotal role in raising awareness to make waters safer.<\/p>\n
The IMB’s latest global piracy report details 58 incidents of piracy and armed robbery against ships, down from 68 incidents during the same period last year.<\/p>\n
In the first six months of 2022, IMB’s Piracy Reporting Centre (PRC) reported 55 vessels boarded, two attempted attacks and one vessel hijacked.<\/p>\n
While the reduction in reported incidents is indeed encouraging, the IMB PRC continues to caution against complacency – vessels were boarded in 96% of the reported incidents. Despite no crew kidnappings reported during this period, violence against and the threat to crews continues with 23 crew taken hostage and a further five crew threatened.<\/p>\n
Of the 58 incidents, 12 were reported in the Gulf of Guinea, ten of which defined as armed robberies and the remaining two as piracy. In early April, a Panamax bulk carrier was attacked and boarded by pirates 260NM off the coast of Ghana. This illustrates that despite a decrease in reported incidents, the threat of Gulf of Guinea piracy and crew kidnappings remains.<\/p>\n
Source: ICC Commercial Crime Services<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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