IMO: Wide-ranging anti-piracy campaign bearing fruit

At the end of a year in which the World Maritime Day theme of "Piracy: orchestrating the response" has been central to the work of IMO, the Organization can look back on 12 months of relatively good progress that have laid the foundations for cautious optimism about the future. Recently compiled statistics show that the number of ships and seafarers held captive by Somali pirates have reduced from a peak of 33 and 733 in February to 13 and 265 respectively, at the beginning of December. The number of reported attacks has also declined from a high of 45 per month in January 2011 to 14 for the month of November 2011; and the proportion of successful attacks has been cut from 20 per cent in January 2011 to just 7 per cent in November 2011.

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Keywords: ANTI-PIRACY CAMPAIGN.BEARING FRUIT, SOMALIA

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Related Topics: International Maritime Organization

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