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By Richard Thomas Oman is becoming a key hub for the private maritime security market as merchant shipping firms look for ways to combat the pirate scourge that threatens approximately 70,000 ship movements every year through the Indian Ocean and Gulf of Aden. The Somali-based pirates have moved further eastwards in search of victims as …

Somali pirates have been using Yemen’s island of Socotra, 240 kilometres east of the Horn of Africa as a refuelling hub, enabling their attack craft to stay restocked for longer periods at sea and pose a greater hazard to shipping, maritime sources say. Despite an international naval presence in the region, seaborne gangs have been …

By Jonathan Saul LONDON (Reuters) – Somali pirates have been using Yemen’s remote Horn of Africa island of Socotra as a refuelling hub enabling their attack craft to stay restocked for longer periods at sea and pose a greater hazard to shipping, maritime sources say. Despite an international naval presence in the region, seaborne gangs have …

Somali gangs are taking piracy to an industrial scales and the number of seafarers killed due to piracy has escalated in the past four years with 62 merchant sailors losing their lives through torture, execution, suicide and malnutrition, campaigners said.Somali gangs, who are making millions of dollars in ransoms, are becoming increasingly violent, and are …

THE Royal Marine in charge of fighting Somali pirates off the coast of Africa has paid tribute to his “nimble” enemy for out-thinking military bosses.  Major General Buster Howes, who leads the EU naval taskforce in the Gulf of Aden, told MPs the pirates have an intellectual cunning and are adaptable. He told the Foreign …

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The number of seafarers killed due to Somali piracy has escalated in the past four years with 62 merchant sailors losing their lives through torture, execution, suicide and malnutrition, campaigners said on Monday. Somali gangs, who are making millions of dollars in ransoms, are becoming increasingly violent, and are able to stay out at sea …

Somali pirates, such as these men captured by the French Navy in 2009, are prompting Australian ship owners to arm their vessels. SHIPS entering the Port of Melbourne are likely to be carrying heavily armed security teams after running the gauntlet of out-of-control piracy in the Indian Ocean. Ship owners are arming their vessels with …

The Somali pirates captured by a Korean special forces unit after they hijacked the merchant vessel Samho Jewelry on January 21 went on trial in a Busan district court on Monday. It is the first-ever piracy trial in Korea. Arai Mahomed (23), Brallat Aul (18), Ali Abdullah (21) and Ali Abukad-Aeman (21) face eight charges, …

The government has decided to allow armed guards on Indian merchant ships as they are vulnerable to attacks from pirates active in the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden. Director general of shipping S B Agnihotri said, “We have decided to allow the armed guards on Indianflagged merchant vessels. The standard operating procedures (SOP) …