Pirates Get Ships Routes From Yemen

They have collaborators in other places too. Asharq Alawasat interviews pirates:
Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat- Adam disclosed that the pirates benefit from information they receive from their partners who support and provide them with information from other countries and said: "We have countries that give us information about the ships in the sea, if there are commercial ships or sailing in our way." He added that these neighboring countries are Yemen, Eritrea, Kenya, and South Africa. Asked how they follow the ships, he said: "We have radars and know every ship's location. We have collaborators in Kenya, Sri Lanka, Yemen, and Dubai." He pointed out that these collaborators have nothing to do with the money "and they only provide us with the information." Jami Adam stressed that the pirates' partners who are present in more than one Arab, African, and Asian country raise the costs of their operating expenditures in the single hijack, adding that the cost of a hijacking might reach $500,000.
HT: Crossroads Arabia
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