The Japanese government will soon submit a bill of anti-piracy legislation to the Diet that would allow private-security firms to assign contractors to Japanese merchant vessels. The bill would allow foreign companies to do business with all ships marked with a Japanese flag, in turn allowing these vessels to carry firearms when in areas infested […]
Seychelles’ handling of Somali pirates
The Minister of Justice for the Puntland region of Somalia has expressed his appreciation of the way the island nation of Seychelles is contributing to the international effort to rid the waters of East Africa of piracy. Abdikilif Sheik Hassan, from the semi-autonomous region of Puntland issued this statement when recently visiting with Joel Morgan, […]
Don’t Pay the Pirates
A special Piracy Ransom Task Force based in the United Kingdom recently recommended that the shipping industry cease paying ransoms to pirates after they hijack ships. Since the piracy epidemic began in 2008, the task force estimates that over $300 million USD in ransoms has been paid to various groups of Somali pirates. These recommendations […]
Italy Jails More Somali Pirates
December 2012 Earlier this month, eleven Somali pirates were sentenced to three and a half years in jail by an Italian judge. The pirates had attempted to hijack a ship about 200 nautical miles off the coast of Oman on January 17th, 2012. The ship they attempted to hijack was an oil tanker belonging to […]
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