Sea pirates became more active
29 January 2008The amount of registered cases of sea piracy for the last year has increased by 10 % in comparison with the last year, is informed in the report of the International Maritime Bureau (IMB).
263 piracy attacks have been registered in 2007, while in 2006 - only 239.
According to IMB’s report, in 2007 pirates became better technically equipped and better armed. So, the amount of attacks with use of fire-arms has increased by 35 %in comparison with 2006, and the amount of wounded crewmen has increased from 17 to 64 person.
For the last year piracy attacks near Nigeria and Somalia have sharply become more frequent. So, near Nigeria coast the piracy has increased in 3,5 times in comparison with 2006 - from 12 up to 42 attacks, 25 of them in area of port Lagos. Near the Somalia coast the cases of piracy have also become frequent more than three times - from 10 to 31 attacks. At that the piracy in this region differed hijacking and taking hostages. In 2007 pirates have stolen 11 vessels, and taken 154 members of their crews hostage.
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