Capacity building
The Gulf of Guinea is a valuable global shipping route with numerous international shipping conglomerates passing through the region everyday. With this large flow of the global economy flowing through the Gulf, the issue of piracy has caught the attention of the international actors. Significant capacity building investments have been made by international actors, like the US, China, and some European states, in the Gulf of Guinea to train local militaries and support states in the regions to counter piracy. Capacity building is a central commonality out of all the varying national maritime strategies that international actors and the core of many of these actors’ counter piracy in the Gulf of Guinea.