An LNG tanker was chased and fired upon by nine pirates in a speed boat on November 6.
IMB PRC: The number of crew members held hostage increasing in comparison to the same period in 2017.
A product tanker anchored in Conakry Anchorage, Guinea, boarded by four armed robbers.
IMB report says that all 2018 crew kidnappings have so far occurred in the Gulf of Guinea in 6 separate incidents.