West Africa a greater threat to seafarers than Somalia
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That pirates off the coast of West Africa are only interested in the ships' cargo, and aren't targeting people as potential hostages, doesn't necessarily mean that the crews on ships sailing in the region are any safer, says researcher and Ph.d. Lars Bangert Struwe, Centre for Military Studies at the University of Copenhagen, in an interview with ShippingWatch.
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