PIRACY AT SEA

There have been thousands maritime robberies and violent pirate attacks reported to the IMB, i.e. International Maritime Bureau of the ICC. The huge threat and danger of maritime piracy to the people engaged in maritime shipping industry, as well as to the efficiency and security of the transportation process, have led the IMO to adopt the famous motto "Piracy - orchestrating the response" - this theme was used for another World Maritime Day.

The Conference was hosted by the WMU in this regard and the results of the conference as well as most interesting documents presented in the course of it have been reflected in the pages of this volume. The book covers all important aspects of the contemporary maritime piracy, including kidnapping, armed robbery, murder and torture at sea, anti-piracy legislation, economics and law of the maritime piracy, counter-piracy operations, Somali piracy, risk assessment and modeling, core strategies of security and many other critical matters. A good one for the people willing to be in the loop of the recent happenings in the field.