Fewer pirate attacks worldwide
Pirate attacks worldwide in the first nine months of 2004 dropped to their lowest levels in five years, helped by declines in hotspots such as Indonesia, Bangladesh and Nigeria, a maritime group said today.
Seafarers suffered 251 attacks globally between January and September, a 27% drop from the 344 attacks in the same period of 2003, the British-based International Maritime Bureau said in a report released by its Piracy Watch Centre in Kuala Lumpur.
