ABSTRACT
Piracy is an activity known and grown for thousands of years. At present in many parts of the world it is treated as a type of legacy or rather part of tradition and so also gladly continued by the population who is experiencing poverty and hunger. Modern day pirates are particularly active in the regions in the waters of the intensive transport by sea. Piracy for many years was treated as an individual problem in each country the coast which existed, and it was not considered as a serious threat to a maritime transport. Such an approach of communities and international institutions to this issue caused the negation of this problem and treating the difficulty as not the most important one. Looking at the world in terms of maritime transport and its more than 95% of the share in the general transport, and also 80% share in the overall transport of crude oil, petroleum and its derivatives, this issue should be put on the first place1. The lack of the activities caused that the problem has not disappeared but it has arisen at the end of XX and the beginning of XXI century and has become an immense difficulty for the maritime transportation in many parts of the world.
