Category: Maritime Security

• Piracy trends off the coasts of Somalia and Nigeria

  October 22, 2012

  Benin, Gulf of Guinea, Maritime Security, Nigeria, Piracy, Somalia, Togo

  The International Maritime Bureau (IMB) released its Piracy and Armed Robbery Against Ships Report for the Period 1 January – 30 September 2012. I often find these reports helpful in tracking trends with regard piracy and armed robbery at sea, but it is important to read the reports with two things in mind. First, unlike Read.

• Nigeria oil production reaches all-time high…then gunmen attack

  August 6, 2012

  Maritime Security, Nigeria

  Over the weekend, gunmen attacked a vessel belonging to an oil services company in the Niger Delta, which resulted in the death of two Nigerian sailors guarding the vessel and the kidnapping of four expatriates. In response to the attacks, the Nigerian navy has dispatched a ship and a helicopter to the area. According to Read.

• Senegal’s New Government Reviews Policies Related to Fishing Industry

  May 12, 2012

  Illegal Fishing, Maritime Security, Senegal

  Earlier this month, Senegal’s recently elected president, Macky Sall, revoked 29 licenses of pelagic fishing vessels belonging to Russia, Comoros, Lithuania, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Belize. This decision came a month after Sall’s first presidential speech in which he declared urgency to act in the country’s fisheries sector, and pledged to review the Read.