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Abstract(s)
Over the past few years, the Gulf of Guinea
has been increasing its world share of
oil production. At the same time, armed
robbery and piracy attacks have become a
permanent threat to the maritime agents in
the region. Oil theft, crew kidnapping for
ransom and robbery of crew and ship valuables
are
the
most
common
outcomes
of
successful
attacks.
To better understand the phenomena, a
political, economic, social and environmental
analysis of the region was perf
or med, and a geographic information system
was developed to provide a deeper
analysis and understanding of the correlation
between geographical and scope factors
of this criminal activity, considering
the period from January 2012 to May
2015. The system integrates the land and
maritime boundaries, population, religion,
oil/gas platforms, oil/gas fields, reported
attacks on ships and spatial analysis results.
Several factors are pointed out as major
contributors to today’s maritime criminality
in the Gulf of Guinea. The geographic information
system analytical outputs provide
a
view
of
the
geographical
concentration,
trends and perceive a slow decreas ing of this threat until 2014 and a slowgrowing tendency in 2015.
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Keywords
Gulf of Guinea;maritime piracy;maritime assaults;shipping;oil