17 Countries Participate in Piracy Meeting in Singapore

The first capacity building activity in 2018 by the Information Sharing Centre (ISC) of ReCAAP, the first regional government-to-government agreement to promote and enhance cooperation against piracy and armed robbery against ships in Asia, kicked off on January 17 with 19 senior officers from 17 countries arriving in Singapore to take stock of the current situation and discuss the roadmap...

41 Somali pirates finally sent home in special chartered flight

The first batch of 41 Somali pirates was deported on Friday from among the 117 caught in Indian waters in 2011 and freed recently.A special chartered flight was arranged by the Somali embassy.They were convicted by a sessions court on August 2, 2017, under various...

After prison term for piracy, 41 Somali men fly back home

Around 9.30am, the men were brought to the airport’s Terminal 2 in Mumbai police’s vans from Yellow Gate police station in South Mumbai where they had been kept in “safe custody” since their release from Kolhapur jail on January 2 and January 12.