The organization has adopted appropriate guidance aimed at assisting governments, ship operators and crew on preventing and suppressing acts of piracy and armed robbery against ships, such as:. The IMO also supports the various best practice guides developed by the shipping industry and which outline appropriate procedures to be employed when responding to acts or attempted acts of piracy and armed robbery against ships in specific regions. Click here for an overview of the latest guidance adopted by the IMO regarding piracy related matters.
It provides links to all security-related guidance produced by the industry as well as to many useful maritime and military security resources. Drop-down menus allow users to find relevant information and guidance either based on types of maritime security risks or geography and specific trading areas.
Central to the website is a collection of best practice guides to assist companies and mariners to risk assess voyages and detect, avoid, deter or delay piracy attacks, such as the:.
For the exact coordinates of the revised HRA, effective on 1 December , click here. The following are recommendations and guidance adopted by IMO to assist governments, shipowners and ship operators, shipmasters and crews in countering acts Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships:.
For a more comprehensive list of recommendations and guidance adopted by IMO on the prevention and response to acts Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships - including Guidelines on crimes of piracy and armed robbery investigation and IMO's Code of Practice for the Investigation of Crimes of piracy and armed robbery - please refer to the Guidance on Piracy section of IMO's Maritime Security webpage.
This guidance was further developed by the Facilitation Committee, and by a special MSC Intersessional Working Group, which produced a suite of guidance for flag States, for port and coastal States, and for ship-owners, ship operators, and shipmasters on the subject. IMO is able to provide technical assistance in this process, if and when requested by Member States, individually at national level or collectively at regional level.
Reports on Piracy and Armed Robbery. Defining Piracy Article of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea UNCLOS determines that Piracy consists of any of the following acts: a any illegal acts of violence or detention, or any act of depredation, committed for private ends by the crew or the passengers of a private ship or a private aircraft, and directed: i on the high seas, against another ship or aircraft, or against persons or property on board such ship or aircraft; ii against a ship, aircraft, persons or property in a place outside the jurisdiction of any State; b any act of voluntary participation in the operation of a ship or of an aircraft with knowledge of facts making it a pirate ship or aircraft; c any act of inciting or of intentionally facilitating an act described in subparagraph a or b.
Defining Armed Robbery against ships Resolution A. IMO Piracy reports IMO issues incident reports on piracy and armed robbery against ships using data submitted by Member Governments and appropriate international organizations, with the first reports being published in Regional cooperation Regional cooperation among States has an important role to play in solving the problem of piracy and armed robbery against ships, as evidenced by the success of the regional anti-piracy and armed robbery agreement and related operations in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore, to which IMO provided and continues to provide assistance, throughout the development and implementation processes.
The Handbook of Security pp Cite as. Piracy is both an historical and a contemporary problem. In the past decade it has also proven to be a legal problem. Under international law, many of the attacks against ships that are commonly characterized as piracy actually fall outside of the legal definition of piracy. This has widespread implications for States seeking to undertake law enforcement activities to combat attacks and address maritime security concerns in order to establish a safe maritime environment for shipping and seafarers.
It first sets out the applicable international law and distinguishes between the two terms. It then provides an overview of piracy and armed robbery against ships in two regions of the world that have been subject to a large number of attacks in the past decade, Southeast Asia and Somalia.
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This is a preview of subscription content, log in to check access. Beckman, R. Bandung, Indonesia, April 4—6, Google Scholar. Maritime Affairs , 2 2 , 29— Acts of Piracy in the Malacca and Singapore Straits.. Bueger, C.
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