What could the pirates do? At the moment the hold the crew at gunpoint and ransom the cargo and crew for the insurance money. With no way to stop the ship, an

What could the pirates do? At the moment the hold the crew at gunpoint and ransom the cargo and crew for the insurance money. With no way to stop the ship, and likely no way to easily get off, the pirates would just be passengers until the ship reached the final destination. Most of the threat of piracy relates to the crew, not the cargo. It's not like they are lifting containers off ships or emptying oil tankers into their pirate refineries.