IMO reports: Zero pirate attacks against yachts this year

11:15 PM Thu 15 Jul 2010 GMT

'A convoy of yachts sets off in March this year to transit the Gulf of Aden' .

It's official. According to the International Maritime Organisation(IMO), a non-profit organisation which acts as a focal point for the global war against piracy, and reports regularly on pirate attacks and attempted attacks against ships, no piracy against yachts has been recorded in the first half of 2010. Two British cruising sailors, Paul and Rachel Chandler, kidnapped in 2009 along with 595 other seamen, are however still held hostage owing to the non-payment of a ransom demand. This is the first time since 2005 that there have been no piracy attacks recorded. There were four recorded attacks in same period in ...

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by Nancy Knudsen