Insurance costs are expected to be escalated following the spike in pirate attacks in West Africa’s Gulf of Guinea.
Despite the fact that the Gulf of Guinea witnessed about an 18 percent drop in the number of pirate attacks recorded within the region in 2014, the kidnapping of senior crew members increased by 75 per cent compared with recorded incidents in 2013, according to Dryad Maritime report.
The report n
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