What is IMO doing about piracy?
Just a few short years ago, it seemed that the scourge of modern-day piracy was being beaten. The figures reveal quite clearly how the nature of the problem has changed. At the turn of the last century, the world’s most notorious piracy areas were the Straits of Malacca and Singapore and the South China Sea. In 2000, there were a total of 471 acts of piracy or armed robbery against ships reported to IMO, of which 112 had taken place in the Malacca Strait and 140 in the South China Sea.
