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Down the number of actions of marine piracy
In the first three months of the 2014 they have been 49
May 5, 2014
In the first trimester of this year they have happened are 49 actions of piracy against ships all over the world, quarterly figure that is the minor from the first three months of 2007 - when 41 was recorded assaults - and that it represents a decrease of the -26% regarding 66 attacks last year recorded in the first three months.
In the first three months of the 2014 two ships are seized, 37 are boarded, five have been object of firearm blows and five are escaped to attack. Altogether marine ones are taken hostage 46 and two have been kidnapped.
In waters to the wide one of the Somalia five incidents, the same number recorded in the first trimester of 2013 have happened. "Even if the number of attacks continuous to modest being - it has emphasized the director of the International Maritime Bureau (IMB), Pottengal Mukundan - the threat of piracy somali is still obvious". In West Africa 12 incidents have happened, of which you are in Nigeria and in Angola. In Indonesia the assaults have been 18 regarding 25 in the first three months last year.
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In the first trimester of this year they have happened are 49 actions of piracy against ships all over the world, quarterly figure that is the minor from the first three months of 2007 - when 41 was recorded assaults - and that it represents a decrease of the -26% regarding 66 attacks last year recorded in the first three months.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
