Bunkerspot: ‘Threat assessment: How the global threat of piracy is evolving’

Bunkerspot Magazine this month brings an in-depth article by Risk Intelligence’s Africa specialist Dr. Dirk Siebels and Head of Intelligence Dr. Guy Wilson-Roberts on the global threat of piracy and how it is evolving.

26 October 2021

Risk Intelligence has been monitoring and assessing the decline in the Somali piracy threat in the Indian Ocean for several years. But in other parts of the world, such as the Gulf of Guinea and South-east Asia, piracy is still a major threat. South-east Asia accounts for around 40% of reports in 2021 so far according the the International Maritime Bureau, IMB, write Dr. Dirk Siebels and Dr. Guy Wilson-Roberts in the article, Risk Intelligence’s leading specialists on the topic.

In the Bunkerspot article, Siebels and Wilson-Roberts provide a complete overview of the global piracy threat, including topics such as: The estimation of the economic impact of fuel smuggling in Nigeria; Locations with the highest number of incidents in the global piracy threat; The outdated status of the Indian Ocean as a High Risk Area (HRA), and more.

Read the full article in this month’s Bunkerspot magazine, and get deeper understanding of the current threat picture in the Somali Basin, the Gulf of Aden and other global regions, and learn what considerations are important to keep in mind when evaluating the piracy threat for a specific area.

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