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IMO Report on Acts of Piracy and Armed Robbery Against Ships 1991 - 1992

INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION

4 ALBERT EMBANKMENT,

LONDON SE1 7SR

Telephone:

071-735 7611

MSC/Circ.577/Add.6

31 March 1993

Telegrams:

INTERMAR-LONDON SE1

Telex:

23588

IMO

Telefax:

071-587 3210

Ref. T1/13

REPORT ON ACTS OF PIRACY AND ARMED ROBBERY AGAINST SHIPS

Issued quarterly

1

The Maritime Safety Committee, at its fifty-ninth session (13 to 24 May 1991), agreed (MSC 59/33, paragraph 19.15) that all future reports on piracy and armed robbery against ships received by the Secretariat should be circulated first by an MSC circular, which should be revised quarterly. Subsequently, all reports received between successive sessions should be presented to the Committee with an analysis of the reports on regional basis, indicating whether the frequency of incidents is increasing or decreasing and advising any new feature or pattern of significance.

2 Annexed hereto are, in the tabulated format agreed by the Committee, reports of incidents received between MSC/Circ.577/Add.5 dated

31 December 1992 and the end of the first quarter of 1993

(31 March 1993).

3

The total number of acts of piracy and armed robbery against ships so far reported to the Organization is 390, an increase of 11 since 31 December 1992.