By Christian Akorlie ACCRA, March 29 (Reuters) – Three Chinese nationals are missing from Ghanaian waters and believed to have been kidnapped after a “suspected pirate attack” on Thursday on their Ghanaian-registered…
https://gcaptain.com/chinese-nationals-missing-from-ghana-waters-after-suspected-piracy/
All six seafarers who were kidnapped from a Liberia-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf of Guinea last month have been returned safely, the ship’s owner, Monjasa, confirmed Monday. The seafarers…
https://gcaptain.com/gulf-of-guinea-piracy-attack-monjasa-reformer-seafarers-recovered-safely/
Singapore is confirming new details about the tanker that was boarded by pirates in the Gulf of Guinea this week. The incident is believed to be on-going. The Maritime and…
https://gcaptain.com/new-details-on-gulf-of-guinea-pirate-attack/
A tanker has been boarded by pirates in the Gulf of Guinea, coming less than a month after the successful hijacking of the MT Monjasa Reformer. The Maritime Domain Awareness…
https://gcaptain.com/tanker-boarded-by-pirates-in-gulf-of-guinea/
A patrol vessel with the French Navy has located the missing tanker Monjasa Reformer four days after it was attacked by pirates and went missing in the Gulf of Guinea….
https://gcaptain.com/monjasa-reformer-located-in-gulf-of-guinea-after-pirate-attack/
March 29 (Reuters) – A Danish-owned vessel that was boarded by pirates in the Gulf of Guinea on Saturday was spotted about 540 miles further off shore on Tuesday, according to a maritime cooperation…
https://gcaptain.com/tanker-seized-by-pirates-in-gulf-of-guinea-reappears-540-miles-away/
COPENHAGEN, Nov 28 (Reuters) – A Danish court on Monday found a Nigerian man guilty of endangering the lives of Danish military personnel in a shooting incident last November involving Denmark’s navy and a…
https://gcaptain.com/convicted-nigerian-pirate-avoids-sentence-in-denmark/
The notoriously dangerous Gulf of Guinea saw a lull in crew kidnappings in the first three months of the year, but officials are urging continued caution as of the risk…
A bunker tanker has been attacked by pirates in the Gulf of Guinea off the Ivory Coast, maritime security firm Dryad Global has confirmed. “Pirates are understood to have boarded…
https://gcaptain.com/pirates-attack-bunker-tanker-off-ivory-coast-report/
Incidents of maritime piracy and armed robbery attacks reached the lowest recorded level since 1994, according to ICC International Maritime Bureau’s (IMB) annual report. The IMB attributes the drop in…
https://gcaptain.com/maritime-piracy-worldwide-falls-to-lowest-level-in-decades-but-caution-urged/