We’re banning paying ransoms to terrorists – but what about pirates?
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We’re banning paying ransoms to terrorists – but what about pirates?
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Eyes open: a French anti-piracy unit in the Gulf of Aden. EPA/Dai Kurokawa
Maritime guns for hire adapt to changes in sea piracy
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/03/us-piracy-shipping-guards-idUSKCN0JH2HC20141203
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Cash-strapped maritime security firms are being forced to use fewer costly elite guards and to diversify into other businesses such as cyber security, as a steep decline in Somali pirate attacks and hotter competition erode fast-thinning margins.
Hundreds of security firms sprang up over the past seven years
EU Court Orders France To Compensate Somali Pirates
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December 05, 2014 3:59 PM ET
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Zodiac commando boats arrive at the rear of the French luxury yacht Le Ponant, whose crew was held hostage by pirates, in April 2008. The French navy frigate Le Commandant Bouan is seen in the background, off Somalia's coast. Reuters/Landov hide caption itoggle caption Reuters/Landov
Zodiac commando boats arrive at the rear of the French luxury yacht Le Ponant, whose crew was held hostage by pirates, in April 2008. The French navy frigate Le Commandant Bouan is seen in the background, off Somalia's coast.
Reuters/LandovThe European Court of Human Rights has ordered France to pay up to 7,000 euros in compensation to each of nine Somali pirates who were detained after hijacking two
Piracy in - West Africa
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Take a boat ride out from the Nigerian port of Lagos and it is easy to see why piracy, sea robbery and other forms of maritime crime are such a problem.
The ocean is swarming with cargo ships, oil tankers, barges and other vessels waiting for permission to enter the overcrowded port.
Great hulks of rusting metal, anchored and sitting low in the water, almost as if they are inviting pirates to sling their ladders over the side and clamber up on board.
"It was 14 August 2014," says Nigerian navigation officer Rotimi George.
"At around 2am I heard banging on my cabin door: Boom, boom, boom, boom. 'Pirate attack, pirate attack'. They seized the captain, who was Russian, and the Ukrainian chief officer."