Somalia – Pirate ports Tasking

11.17.10

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  What ports are being used?
  
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  How many ships there?
  
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  Details on how they hold ships offshore.
  
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  Reports on where homeports are for mother ships.
  

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Research:

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  Should really read: http://www.scribd.com/doc/25138962/Piracy-in-the-Greater-Gulf-of-Aden (esp. the section about what Somali piracy is like currently)
  

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  What ports are being used?
  
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  Pirate bases: Eyl, Haradhere, Garad, Ras Alula and Hobyo. Harvard Paper on Somali Piracy. Dec. 2009
  
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  How many ships there?
  
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  Details on how they hold ships offshore.
  
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  Sometimes they will contract out the holding of ransomed ships to other pirate groups. Link
  
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  To maintain a ship after it has been hijacked is expensive. Food for
  the hijacked crew has to be bought, local police bribed and more
  investment is thus needed. These sums are still relatively low, up-keep
  running as low as USD 100 a day, and the operation is very often run
  on credit.
  
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  Reports on where homeports are for mother ships.
  
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  This Somali Pirate Attack Thread is a bit dated – 2008 although they may still use these ports.
  
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  Somali Pirate Attacks Thread
  
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