Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean on Monday night hijacked a Greek cargo ship that had loaded phosphate fertilizer at the Port of Tampa in November and was headed for India. ...more

December 30, 2009

Somali pirates attacked the Maersk Alabama on Wednesday for the second time in seven months and were thwarted by private guards on board the U.S.-flagged ship who fired off guns and a high-decibel noise device. A U.S. surveillance plane was monitoring the ship as it continued to its destination on the Kenyan coast, while a pirate said that the captain of a ship hijacked Monday with 28 North Korean crew members on board had died of wounds. ...more

November 18, 2009

An Indian warship destroyed a suspected pirate vessel Tuesday off the Horn of Africa. It was the second time in a week that India has used force to fight piracy off the eastern coast of Africa. ...more

November 29, 2008