The Maritime Domain Awareness for Trade – Gulf of Guinea (MDAT-GoG) information center reports that the latest incident occurred Monday, April 10, approximately 300 nautical miles (nm) south-southwest of Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
The EOS Risk Group commented that the latest incident suggests it is likely another vessel was used to support the pirates. “Either a mothership was used to deploy a skiff, or a secondary tanker is in the vicinity to illegally offload the boarded vessel’s cargo. The latter was most recently demonstrated during the double boarding and robbery of MT B. Ocean’s cargo in January and November of 2022,” according to a maritime security incident alert.
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