MARITIME SAFETY COMMITTEE
70th session
Agenda item 15

PIRACY AND ARMED ROBBERY AGAINST SHIPS

Annual, quarterly and monthly reports

Note by the Secretariat

1　　　　The Committee, at its sixty-fifth session in May 1995, instructed the Secretariat to issue, as from 31 July 1995, monthly reports of all incidents of piracy and armed robbery against ships reported to the Organization and, in addition, on a quarterly basis, composite reports accompanied by an analysis, on a regional basis, of the situation and an indication whether the frequency of incidents is increasing or decreasing and advising on any new feature or pattern of significance.

2　　　　At its sixty-sixth session in June 1996, the Committee (MSC 66/24, paragraph 16.6) instructed the Secretariat to prepare, after March of every year, an annual summary of all acts of piracy and armed robbery against ships, which had occurred during the previous year and had been reported to the Organization, based on their actual date and time of occurrence.

3　　　　Information on reports of piracy and armed robbery against ships received by the Secretariat since 1984, when relevant statistics started being compiled and, in particular, those that occurred in the course of 1997 as well as a regional analysis thereof, has been circulated by means of MSC/Circ.840 and brought to the attention of MSC,69. The annual report on incidents occurred during 1998 will be circulated in March 1999 and brought to the attention of MSC.71.

4　　　　A monthly comparison between the number of acts of piracy and armed robbery against ships which were reported to have occurred in 1997, as reported on 31 August 1997, and the corrcsponding number of acts which occurred in 1998 is presented in the annex.

I:/MSC/70/15

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