Regional conflicts raise fears of renewed piracy in the Gulf of Aden

Regional conflict in Yemen, Iran and the wider Middle East are raising concerns that growing instability could fuel a resurgence of piracy along one of the world's most important shipping routes naval commanders warned More than 200 sailors, including a special operation team trained to retake vessels seized by pirates, are deployed aboard the frigates as part of the EU's Operation Atlanta anti-piracy mission. So also two main peaks The incidents, one of them started with the attacks in the Red Sea and the other in the beginning of the war in Strait of Bab el-Mandeb I'm not saying that there is a direct link with this crisis, but what can I say is that crisis creates crisis Commanders say pirates could exploit the current instability by targeting commercial vessels moving through the Gulf of Aden. Or waiting further offshore in the Somali Basin Take two line of action, the first one come here to the Gulf of Aden with the most part of the traffic, merchant traffic transits from Asia to the west or they can come Come here to what we call the Somali Basin and wait for a possible target The renewed concerns over piracy come at a time of heightened maritime tensions, with the Strait of Hormuz closed amid the war in Iran, and uncertainty over a possibility of resumption of fighting between Tehran and Washington.