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Pirating has come back in an era where we thought it was gone. The last pirates were from an era of wooden ships and big canons that they could fire at these boats and use to decimate the ship while still keeping it in such good shape as to rescue the freight inside.

These days you have the new era where starving Somalia’s race after slow freight ships and oil and gas and climb aboard, incapacitate the crew, offer the ship to the highest bidder. or to the country of origin for a steep price. They then collect this money and race off the boat trying to get back to shore where the coast guard or various military ships can’t try and get them.

 It’s an ingenious scheme if you think about it. The only problem is its illegal. These ships being seized are transporting vital goods that could slow or stop a city or economy. The important scheduling of oil or gas into and out of refineries and ports for freight happens if a boat is delayed. It could hold up the works for hours until a new schedule is printed and the known parties are rescheduled.
 It has been shown how hard it is to come up with schedules to get the men in place and off load freight on TV shows. Now you’re throwing this whole schedule out of wrack because you have to reschedule all these me to deal with a totally different ship. It can be quite time consuming. It’s doable but it takes time.

 I mean think of the trains that were going somewhere with that pirated ships freight and now has to be redirected elsewhere. That leads to delays down the line for companies that thought the freight was coming on Friday. Now they don’t know when it is coming and then they can’t get the products to market. You’re talking about a lot of upheaval over just one ship being pirated.

And the reason they are being pirated is that the Somalia’s have no other way of feeding themselves. The government if any has enough trouble just staying together without trying to stop these pirates. All they need are these pirates to come after the Somalian government. No country wants to go in there to root out the pirates because they fear they will get stuck in a quagmire. So the best thing to do is patrol the waters like the British did in the old days and make sure these pirates do not attack and board vessels. Any less and they find the pirates taking on more ships and causing havoc.

In the end it will come down to stopping pirates at sea and stopping them at home. These pirates would be stopping by either a UN program, of distributing food and money to employee these pirates in jobs that would keep them busy, and not attacking passing ships.