ANTIPIRACY OPERATIONS AT SEA THE COSTS OF PIRACY IN THE GULF OF ADEN AND SOMALI BASIN
ANTIPIRACY OPERATIONS AT SEA THE COSTS OF PIRACY IN THE GULF OF ADEN AND SOMALI BASIN

Summary/Abstract: Approximately 80% of world trade currently travels by sea, representing around 93,000 merchant vessels, 1.25 million seafarers, and almost six billion tons of cargo. When appear some disturbing factors, that affect the transfer of goods and the free transit on sea routes for civilian ships involved in trading, disorders of all specific processes are inevitable, starting from the delays to financial losses, lack of confidence and not the least occurrence of critical conditions that can culminate in life lost. About maritime piracy it was written very much, there have been made statistics, but it has not managed so far to put all these documents in a white book of piracy. The data presented in this paper are the results of corroborating statements transmitted by NATO, EU and the organizations involved in analyzing this phenomenon.

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