Acts of piracyAs reported by IMB’s Piracy Reporting Centre
Summary of piracy and armed robbery against ships in 2014
/from the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) report, 12 January 2015/
The increased number of attacks against small tankers off South East Asia’s coasts caused a rise in global ship hijackings, despite piracy at sea falling to its lowest level in eight years
In 2014:
v 245 attacks on ships were committed worldwide (264 attacks in 2013);
v 21 ships were hijacked (12 ships in 2013), 183 ships were boarded by pirates or armed robbers;
v 13 ships were fired upon;
v 442 crew members were taken hostage at sea (304 crew members in 2013);
v 4 crewmembers were killed (1 crewmember in 2013);
v 13 seafarers were injured (21 seafarers in 2013);
v 9 seafarers were kidnapped from their vessels.
Including:
§ In Somalia area pirates committed 11 attacks on ships, all of which were thwarted. (15 attacks in 2013);
§ In West Africa, 41 incidents were reported, including 18 attacks off Nigeria; all in all 8 vessels were hijacked;
§ In South East Asia and Indonesia 124 attacks on ships were committed, most of which were aimed at low-level theft from vessels using guns and long knives (in the waters around Pulau Bintan and øò the South China Sea 11 vessels were hijacked);
In waters of Bangladesh 21 incidents were reported.
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