LAGOS – Helicopters hover above a patrol vessel in Nigeria’s frenetic Apapa port as attack boats zoom past. On the...
West African piracy News
The world’s biggest shipping company demanded a more effective military response to surging pirate attacks and record kidnappings off the...
The number of kidnappings reported off the West African coast in the year through September is 40% higher than the...
The West African coast has overtaken Southeast Asia as the worst area for piracy and kidnappings reported at sea last...
An oil tanker was attacked on Sunday in West Africa’s Gulf of Guinea and most of its crew were kidnapped,...
Pirates boarded a fully loaded supertanker off the coast of Nigeria, an act that is sure to ring alarm bells...
Remember those Somali pirates? Earlier this decade, they brazenly hijacked giant oil tankers, demanded ransoms in the millions of dollars,...
West African pirates will threaten the region’s oil and shipping industries for years as the measures used to curb attacks...
Typhon Maritime Security Service announced the launch of its first marine convoy escort service, designed to enable “ship operators to...