Boardings, hijackings, crew captures and demands for ransoms… In recent weeks, while maritime traffic has been disrupted by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, Somali pirates have surfaced and resumed their attacks against ships cruising off the Gulf of Aden and in the western Indian Ocean. Since January 1, 14 attacks on ships, including eight since April, have been recorded by Atalante, the European Union naval deployment responsible for maritime security in this strategic region for global trade, via three bottlenecks – the Suez Canal, the Bab Al-Mandab Strait and the Strait of Hormuz.
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