Tanker vessel MT VEMAHOPE was assaulted by a solitary speedboat with an unidentified variety of armed people at around 1930 UTC Apr 30 in Gulf of Guinea, some 175 nm south of Lagos.
The vessel was underway, en course from Lome Togo to Cameroon.
According to records, 10 staff participants have actually been abducted by the pirates.
According to Dryad, with the abduct of 10 staff from the VEMAHOPE, the overall variety of staff abducted from vessels running in West Africa in 2020 has actually boosted to 42 employees.
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Historically case coverage within this location is considerably much less than that of the larger Delta location, mostly as an outcome of much less website traffic thickness nonetheless throughout 2019 as well as 2020 there has actually been a steady rise in occurrences happening past standard marine criminal offense heartlands.
If validated, this case would certainly be the 7th deep overseas case within the Nigerian EEZ within 2020. Total occurrences in West Africa have actually so far tracked 2019 patterns practically precisely with a partial loss of just 1 case seen in 2020 contrasted occurrences over the very same time-frame in 2019.
Source–Dryad Global Report
