Report: Chemical Tanker Attacked by Pirates in Gulf of Guinea

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...

Pirate Attacks on Fishermen are Underreported - And Deadly

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...

Published Feb 10, 2025 10:42 PM by The Maritime Executive

The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) finds itself under fire again over its vetting standards, this time for allegedly overlooking...

Published Jan 14, 2025 2:58 PM by The Maritime Executive

Piracy at sea is less common than it used to be, according to the ICC's International Maritime Bureau, but the risk to crewmembers...

Published Nov 14, 2024 6:15 PM by The Maritime Executive

A Nigerian pirate who was convicted and sentenced for hijacking a Dutch freighter has been charged again in connection with a prev...