{"id":8141,"date":"2015-06-09T19:32:40","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T18:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/piracylessons\/?p=8141"},"modified":"2015-07-03T19:39:25","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T18:39:25","slug":"the-state-of-maritime-piracy-new-report-by-obp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/piracylessons\/2015\/06\/09\/the-state-of-maritime-piracy-new-report-by-obp\/","title":{"rendered":"The State of Maritime Piracy: New Report by OBP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How is maritime piracy developing? What are the current numbers? The NGO Oceans Beyond Piracy (OBP) continues to be a main source of information on piracy and its human and economic cost. For the first time OBP has published an aggregated report on piracy which brings all available data together. Please\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/oceansbeyondpiracy.org\/sites\/default\/files\/attachments\/StateofMaritimePiracy2014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">read the entire report here<\/a>. Core findings include<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Southeast Asian piracy is especially dangerous for seafarers based on the quantity of<br \/>\nattacks and 90% boarding success rate. Nearly 3,600 seafarers were on board<br \/>\nvessels boarded by pirates in SE Asia.<\/li>\n<li>Gulf of Guinea piracy continues at unacceptable levels. There have been no piracy<br \/>\nprosecutions and there is a lack of effective cooperation between regional<br \/>\ngovernments and industry.<\/li>\n<li>Total economic cost estimated at $983 million for 2014.<br \/>\nCollective efforts to address Somali piracy continue to dwindle, while there are<br \/>\nindications that pirate activity and intent remain. Total economic cost for 2014<br \/>\nestimated at $2.3 Billion.<\/li>\n<li>At least 5,000 seafarers were attacked in Southeast Asia, the Gulf of Guinea, and Western<br \/>\nIndian Ocean in 2014.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How is maritime piracy developing? What are the current numbers? The NGO Oceans Beyond Piracy (OBP) continues to be a main source of information on piracy and its human and economic cost. For the first time OBP has published an &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/piracylessons\/2015\/06\/09\/the-state-of-maritime-piracy-new-report-by-obp\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":310,"featured_media":5329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/piracylessons\/files\/2014\/05\/obp-logo-short.jpg?fit=119%2C119","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7f9-27j","meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/piracylessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/piracylessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/piracylessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/piracylessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/piracylessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/piracylessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8142,"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/piracylessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8141\/revisions\/8142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/piracylessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/piracylessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/piracylessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/piracylessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}