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UK maritime intelligence provider, Dryad Maritime, has issued a special advisory warning all of its shipping clients on the increased threat of “crew kidnap” in the Gulf of Guinea. Dryad said that since it issued the warning, “two further attacks …

Delegates attending the annual conference of International Union of Marine Insurance (IUMI) in London were told that “insurers, ship owners and cargo interests cannot equate piracy in West Africa to that seen off the coast of Somalia.” Jim Mainstone, Marine …