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Worldwide Incidents 2016: 191 reported incidents (updated on 24 January 2017)

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Best Management Practice Ver 4: (dated 18 Aug 2011)

Industry bodies, along with the navies, have developed guidelines to assist masters in transiting the dangerous waters in the Gulf of Aden and off the east coast of Somalia. The guidelines, called the Best Management Practice (BMP), is a fluid document which gets updated regularly as new lessons are learned. To download a copy of the latest version, BMP4, please click here.