Cotonou tightens piracy measures: 'Pirates professionalising'

The management of the Port of Cotonou, managed by a Port of Antwerp team, is tightening anti-piracy measures at the port. “Not because we ourselves are currently suffering from piracy,” stresses director-general Joris Thys. “We do note that the pirates off the coast of Nigeria are ‘professionalising’, as it were. They are already operating 100 miles off the coast which, judging from recent news reports, suggests that they are operating from a mother ship.”