THE numbers for piracy and armed robbery in Asian waters for 2023 are already on par with the figures for the whole of last year, according to Greece’s Container News. By the first week of October this year, some 83 incidents of piracy and armed robbery against ships in Asia occurred compared to 84 in the entire last year, data available with the information-sharing centre of the Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia (ReCP) shows. The...