The Gulf of Guinea, South East Asia and The Indian Ocean High[ds_preview] Risk Area (HRA) have all seen a significant reduction of reported maritime crime throughout July, August and September of this year according to Q3 analysis released by Dryad Maritime. in Southeast Asia, piracy is at its lowest level since 2009.
With the exception of the Sulu Sea, incidents of maritime crime in South East Asia are at their lowest since 2009 and in the Indian Ocean HRA there were no confirmed acts of piracy in Q3, with the last recorded incident of piracy reported on a merchant vessel in 2014. In the Gulf of Guinea and within Nigeria’s Economic Exclusion Zone there has been a decrease of attacks with a total of just four attacks against commercial shipping at sea off the Niger Delta since early July, this compares to 36 in the first six months of the year. In the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean, Somali piracy remains broadly contained and, in Southeast Asia, piracy is at its lowest level since 2009, with a 65% reduction when compared to this time last year. The bad news, however, is that 81 people have been kidnapped, seven have been killed and 61 remain in captivity. M
