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Release Latest Piracy Statistics Shows Maritime Crime Continues To Grow In Southeast Asia.

Naval policing of maritime corridor deters pirate attacks.

Fiji's commitment towards securing and policing its maritime borders is recognised through the signing of a new MOU between the UK and Fijian Government.

Police rescue two men with severe hypothermia in Strait of Gibraltar.

Maritime piracy constitutes a major threat to global shipping and international trade. We argue that fishers turn to piracy to smooth expected income losses and to deter illegal foreign fishing fleets. Previous investigations have generally focused on cross-national determinants of the incidence of piracy in territorial waters. These investigations neglect piracy in international waters and ignore its spatial dependence, whereby pirate attacks cluster in certain locations due to neighborhood and spillover effects. We conduct a geographically disaggregated analysis using geo-referenced data of piracy and its covariates between 2005 and 2014. We demonstrate that the incidence of piracy in a particular location is associated with higher catch volumes from high-bycatch and habitat-destroying fishing, even when controlling for conditions in proximate coastal areas. We find, additionally, that illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing exerts an especially pronounced effect on piracy. These findings highlight the need for anti-piracy solutions beyond enforcement to include the policing of fishing practices that are illegal or are perceived by local fishers in vulnerable coastal areas to be harmful to small-scale fishing economies.

General cargo vessel MUNZUR was intercepted by Italian police on December 2 in Tyrrhenian sea northeast of Pantelleria island, ...

Hijacked Tanker Found, Pirates Arrested.

China's Coast Guard is Now a Military Police Unit.

Video: Spanish Police Raid Island Drug-Smuggling Base.

Japanese Police Discover "Ghost Ship" With Seven Bodies.

Portuguese maritime police stormed a Liberian flagged general cargo ship yesterday after a sailor of Turkish origin ran amok, brandishing knives and an axe and threatening to set fire to the vessel. The 4,757 dwt Celine (built 2011) was passing through international waters off Sesimbra in Portugal when local authorities received messages from the ship's …

On March 16 2017 the crew of the MT ARIS 13, a tanker vessel, was released from Somali pirate hands due to the efforts of the Puntland Maritime Police Force (PMPF). The entire crew is reported unharmed. Under the care of the PMPF, the MT ARIS 13 is now proceeding to the Somali port city of Bosasso. On 13 March, pirates hijacked the vessel en route to Mogadishu from Djibouti. The ship was seized approximately 18 km off the northern tip of Somalia. This incident marks the first hijacking of a large merchant vessel since the height of Somali piracy in 2012.

Greek oil tanker hijacked near Nigeria released: police.

Two Dead in Crew Attack on board Fishing Vessel .

Two Dead in Crew Attack on board Fishing Vessel .

Suez Canal in Shipping Safety Scheme.

Ten Fishermen Kidnapped by Suspected Abu Sayyaf Militants.

Indonesian authorities on the resort island of Bali on Thursday detained a ship from Malaysia carrying around 30 tons of fertilizer which police believe may have been intended for making bombs.