Suez Canal ship traffic has dropped sharply due to frequent attacks at sea.
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Piracy off the Somali coast remains a high-risk undertaking with a low probability of success.
The success of the Somali case illustrates what a high degree of shared interests among international actors can achieve.
In 2019, there were fewer attacks and attempted attacks on ships than there had been in 25 years. The coronavirus may bring economic and political changes that make piracy worse in the coming years.
With the exception of Somali piracy, counter-measures have failed to stop transnational criminal networks from taking to the seas.
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