For the second consecutive year, the Maritime Information Cooperation & Awareness Center (MICA Center) publishes an annual review of maritime piracy and robbery events. This report identifies and characterises the events recorded in 2020 that affect maritime security worldwide.

The total number of events related to maritime piracy and robbery has remained stable over the last five years. With 375 events reported worldwide, it is still almost half the peak number reached in 2011, at the height of the attacks off the coast of Somalia. For the year 2020, the MICA Center notes a slight increase in the number of attacks in the Gulf of Guinea but no increase in the number of people kidnapped. It confirms that piracy off the Horn of Africa remains at a low level and that robbery is on the rise in the Caribbean arc and in South-East Asia (increase in thefts).

The MICA Center is a centre for the analysis and assessment of the maritime security situation, but also a unit that centralises alerts in the event of an attack at sea. It collects and relays useful information to partners who subscribe to its free services. This annual report summarises the assessments regularly transmitted to maritime industry actors and analyses the trends observed as well as the evolution of modes of action.

Download here the MICA Center’s 2020 Report on maritime piracy and robbery in the world.