Report: Chinese Fishing Vessel Hijacked Off Somalia

Published Jan 1, 2026 6:12 PM by The Maritime Executive

A Chinese fishing vessel from a notorious illegal-fishing fleet has been hijacked off the coast of Puntland, Somalia, according to...

Fugitive Pirates Reach Somalia and Evade Capture

Published Nov 11, 2025 9:38 PM by The Maritime Executive

After a multiday pursuit and standoff, naval forces with EUNAVFOR Operation Atalanta boarded a dhow that had been used as a mother...

Published Oct 7, 2025 5:19 PM by The Maritime Executive

A newly-released legal complaint lays out serious allegations of mistreatment of the crew of the Heroic Idun, who were detained by...

Published Aug 28, 2025 6:12 PM by The Maritime Executive

A pirate attack has been reported aboard a chemical tanker off the coast of Togo in the Gulf of Guinea, a rare occurrence in what...

Published Aug 24, 2025 6:32 PM by Dialogue Earth

[By Bryan Peters and Letizia Paoli] In late April 2018, about 40 nautical miles off Paramaribo, Suriname, what started as a routin...

Published Jul 23, 2025 9:20 PM by The Maritime Executive

Interpol has decided to cancel the worldwide "red notice" extradition request that Japan filed for Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watso...

Published Jul 15, 2025 8:28 PM by The Maritime Executive

Police in Indonesia's Riau Islands have broken up a ring of pirates who were allegedly engaged in serial armed robberies in the Ph...

Published Jun 30, 2025 10:22 PM by The Maritime Executive

A convicted pirate leader has had another three years added onto his sentence for a kidnapping in the Gulf of Guinea in 2017 - a r...

Published May 20, 2025 9:40 PM by The Maritime Executive

[Update: Ambrey retracted its report on Wednesday, calling it a "false hijack distress call" from a vessel that had likely made si...

Published May 6, 2025 11:40 PM by The Maritime Executive

Police in Ghana have arrested four people in connection with the kidnapping of Chinese crewmembers from a Ghanaian-registered fish...