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World Piracy Update on C-Map charts
- In Cooperation with Jeppesen

Stay updated on piracy: Bergen Risk Solutions has, in cooperation with Jeppesen – A Boeing Company -  launched a piracy data overlay on existing C-Map navigation charts. It provides global coverage of piracy incidents with no need for a high speed internet link. The overlay can be combined with other C-Map solutions such as weather and wave information. Do not hesitate to download the presentation to find out more.

Download more information on the Piracy Overlay here

Somali Pirates and the Monsoon Season - Version 3

This is an update to our previous monsoon reports, published in December 2010 and June 2011. It seeks to identify changes in the attack patterns of Somali pirates, who have to deal with a lot more than bad weather these days. Private armed security, actions by naval forces, BMP-4, finances drying up and onshore events have all worked in the pirates’ disfavour. How will that influence their capacity to re-mobilise after the monsoon season comes to an end?

Somali Pirates and the Monsoon Season - Version 2

This report has been updated with charts illustrating pirate attack patterns during the past two weather cycles in the Indian Ocean – the North East (winter) monsoon and three months of calm, in weather terms,  that followed. The South West (summer) monsoon is now well established. In previous years, 2009 and 2010, this was periods of virtually no pirate activity in the Indian Ocean. Yet on 11 and 12 June – less than a week ago – pirates tried to hijack tree bulk carriers and a chemical tanker 400 nM east of Socotra Island in the Arabian Sea. Are the pirates more or less successful now compared with last year?  Has their activity increased or decreased? And how are the naval forces focussing their efforts now?

Read and find out.

Somali Pirates and the Use of large Merships

Reports that Somali pirates are using large hijacked merchant ships  –  so-called ‘motherships’ –  to interdict commercial shipping, thus overcoming the disadvantages of small boat attacks and cancelling out sea state considerations is of concern but should be no cause for panic or ‘upping-the-ante’. 

Somali Piracy and the Monsoon Season

Somali pirates have set new records in 2010 in terms of their capacity to reach far from its bases on the Somali mainland. Attcks – or attempts thereof – have been recorded as far as 1650 nm from Mogadishu, south of the Chagos Archipelago in the southern Indian Ocean, and incidents in the southern Red Sea, off Tanzania and as far as 67 degrees east have become commonplace. There are great seasonal variations in the pirates’ geographical attack patterns. The two monsoon seasons in the Indian Ocean dictate where the pirates can operate. This report sets out to illustrate these variations – and thus risk of encountering pirates – by mapping the pirates’ actions, season by season.

Nigeria Maritime Security

Ships and oil-rigs are vulnerable to attacks by criminals, politically motivated militants and community pressure groups. In order to assist mariners, oil workers and insurers in identifying and understanding the risks of sea piracy, we offer a quarterly Maritime Security Review and Briefing which include attacks all along Nigeria’s coastline, not just the Delta.

View a sample of our Nigeria Maritime Security Briefing.

Gulf of Aden Piracy

The waters off Somalia are the most dangerous in the world after Somali pirates seized over 40 vessels in 2008. The chaos offshore is intricately linked to the chaos and lawlessness onshore. To properly understand the Gulf of Aden it is important to understand the situation in the surrounding nations, most notably Somalia.

The situation in the Gulf of Aden has three perspectives; that of the pirates, the international community and its presence in the Gulf, and the situation in Somalia. This report gives an excellent overview of all three perspectives. It includes maps which pinpoints attacks throughout 2008 and the first two months of 2009, a forecast regarding piracy, the situation on land and the international community’s involvement as well as practical prevention strategies for shipping companies travelling in the area.

Asian Piracy

In 2008 102 piracy incidents were reported across Asia. In 2009 there were 113. These events were largely concentrated in a number of hot spots across the region. The vast majority of attacks in Asia are cases of robbery, which stands in sharp contrast to the type of piracy currently being seen in the Gulf of Aden. Over the past 5 years, piracy has been successfully reduced in a number of areas, notably the Malacca Strait, Indonesian territorial waters and Chittagong Port in Bangladesh. On the other hand, piracy in the South China Sea has not been met with the same resolve and has been increasing. To learn more, please feel free to download our “Piracy in Asia” report.

Read the Piracy in Asia report here