• Somali pirates were responsible for 44% of the 289 piracy incidents on the world's seas in the first nine months of 2010, according to the International Chamber of Commerce's International Maritime Bureau (IMB).
• Of 39 ship hijackings, 35 were carried out by Somali pirates.
• There is evidence that Somali pirates are gaining in confidence, carrying out more attacks away from their own coast. According to the IMB, pirates are using oceangoing fishing vessels to reach as far as the southern Red Sea, where they hijacked a chemical tanker in July 2010 – the first such hijacking recorded in the area. Pirates are heavily armed with automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades, the IMB says.
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