[Skybird]

Trollman, since you are so clever to find relevant information yourself while it is so very easily accessible, will you please check with the Münchner Rück insurance company (the world's greatest of its kind and the major player in it's field) and their statistics on global patterns and numbers of acts of piracy in the various regions of the globe.

And when you find then "piracy in the Northsea" comparing to the piracy being found offcoast of Nigeria, Somalia, or the street of Malakka until some years ago, and other more exotic places as well that are not the Baltic or the Northsea, you could come back again: but I fear that - as usual - you will anyway.

BTW, the piracy at Malacca has significantly declined and last year was almost non-existent. Because it was actively and aggressively fought against by the military in the years before. Says not me - but says the statistics.