So far, in the Indian public imagination, piracy has been synonymous with river pirates who have kidnapped and looted small fishing boats for paltry ransoms and goods in the Sundarbans region in eastern India for decades.īut the kidnapping of the Japanese-owned cargo ship MV Stolt Valor with 18 Indian crew members on 15 September off the Somali coast brought the country's attention to a bigger and more serious problem of piracy.Ī spirited campaign was launched by Seema Goyal, wife of the ship's captain PK Goyal, who pressured the usually unresponsive government to secure the release of the crew members. There is also no doubt that the government is taking the menace of high sea piracy in the Gulf of Aden seriously.
Shashank Kulkarni, secretary general of the Indian National Ship Owners Association (Insa) says that there is now no doubt that Indian-owned cargo ships are coming under increasing danger from pirates operating in the region. The warship responded by sending out a helicopter to the area, which chased away the pirate vessel.Ī similar incident happened on Wednesday, when an Indian navy warship destroyed a suspected Somali pirate vessel after it came under attack in the same area. The captain of the ship sent out a SOS to the INS Tabar, a state-of-the-art Russian built Indian naval warship which has been patrolling waters in the region to combat the pirate menace. The Indian navy is patrolling off the Somali coastĪbout a week ago, an Indian cargo ship sailing in the Gulf of Aden spotted a pirate vessel operating off the coast of Somalia.
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