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piracy didn't die out with rum and parrots. It's an ongoing problem especially around failed states: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ships_attacked_by_Som

• dogma1138 10y ago
  No one claims that piracy has died, we are all aware of the pirates in Africa, the Indian Ocean and in the Pacific. But there is no homeport that can harbor not to mention offload any of those ships, they ransom the crew every time (often not even the entire crew). Those ships hull on average about 4000 containers you need a modern port to offload them, a fishing village in Somalia won't cut it, the ship won't even be able to dock. The only ports in Somalia which are capable of harboring a cargo vessel are in Mogadishu, Berbera, Bosaso and Kismayo the Pirates simply cannot operate from those areas as the Somali government controls those ports pretty tightly.