ANALYSIS OF MARITIME PIRACY BY USING QUALITATIVE METHODS

Nearly 90% of world trade is transported by sea. Maritime piracy is a major threat for maritime security, shippers, crews, cargo owners and insurance companies. Main reasons of piracy and armed robbery attacks, piracy statistics, international conventions, regulation and multinational efforts were examined and maritime piracy against ships are analyzed in the period 2015 to 2020 in the study. The Chi Square Test (χ2) was used to test statistical relationship between categorical variables such as piracy attacks by years, months and hours, types, regions and type of vessels attacked. The results of the frequeny distributions show that the most piracy attacks occurred in 2015 (20.9%), the most attacks were in March-April-May (30.2%), the most attacks were occured between the hours 24:00-04:00 (29.2%) the most attacks occurred in South East Asia (42.6%), the most type of attacks against to ships were boarded (79.1%), the most attacks were occurred against bulk carriers (28.6), Marshall Islands-flagged ships were the most attacked (17.1%). The results of Chi-Square Test show that there is a weak statistical relationship between the piracy attacks by months and regions; there is a weak statistical relationship between the piracy attacks by years and type of attacks. There is no statistical relationship between other variables. In the conclusion part of the study, some suggestions are proposed to combat the maritime piracy.