Nigerian Pirate Guilty of Causing Danger to Danish Soldiers

Published Nov 28, 2022 5:20 PM by The Maritime Executive

The Copenhagen City Court has found a Nigerian man guilty of causing danger a year ago to Danish soldiers deployed in the Gulf of...

Italian Navy Assists Disabled Tanker After Pirates Steal Cargo

Published Nov 28, 2022 12:38 PM by The Maritime Executive

The Italian Navy is assisting the South Korean product tanker B. Ocean that was robbed and left disabled by pirates last week in t...

Published Nov 25, 2022 12:40 PM by The Maritime Executive

South Korean officials and security operations monitoring the Gulf of Guinea are confirming that a South Korean-owned product tank...

Published Nov 24, 2022 6:11 PM by The Maritime Executive

The Gulf of Guinea is witnessing a shift in the dynamics of piracy, with criminal networks moving away from ta...

Published Nov 24, 2022 11:55 AM by The Maritime Executive

ReCAAP, the Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery Against Ships in Asia, is again highlighting an i...

Published Nov 20, 2022 2:38 PM by Sean M. Holt

Swashbuckling pirates and sabotage on the high seas have gone digital. Ransomware has replaced the cutlass. In fact, the entirety...

Published Nov 15, 2022 7:32 PM by The Maritime Executive

The Nigerian government has deployed its recently-enacted antipiracy law to prosecute the crew of a foreign-flagged VLCC, the Hero...

Published Nov 13, 2022 10:06 PM by The Maritime Executive

The crew, owners and insurers of the VLCC Heroic Idun have lost their bid to keep the tanker out of the hands of the Nigerian mili...

Published Nov 7, 2022 6:18 PM by The Maritime Executive

Though global piracy has fallen to its lowest level in three decades, robbery remains a problem in the waters of the Singapor...

Published Oct 17, 2022 12:51 PM by Ian Urbina

The lawlessness of the oceans provides space to absurd and remarkable stories of renegades and mavericks of all sorts seeking to e...