TITLE

Piracy scourge unabated

AUTHOR(S)

Cottrill, Ken

PUB. DATE

August 1996

SOURCE

Traffic World;8/05/96, Vol. 247 Issue 5, p27

SOURCE TYPE

Trade Publication

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Focuses on concerns with piracy on merchant ships in Southeast Asia and Brazil. Evidence of piracy incidents; Attacks in Brazil and the southern Philippines; Reluctance of shipping lines to report piracy incidents to avoid costs and publicity; Kinds of piracy attacks.

ACCESSION #

9612110446

Tags: PIRATES;  HIJACKING of ships

 

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