When trying a foreign pirate domestically, states must pay all the costs of trial: transporting evidence and witnesses, providing translation and legal services for the pirates, and housing the pirate in a domestic prison. States also fear that pirates, upon reaching their soil, will petition for asylum. Because of this, it is not uncommon for states to simply release pirates, rather than face the costs and complications of transporting them for trial.
Hence it can be concluded that, in recent years piracy, has turned out to be a vital problem for global shipping and maritime safety. Piracy is an international problem, as it takes place outside state jurisdiction and affects the nationals of many states. Yet international law has proven unable to provide a framework for an effective solution to this problem. This is due in part to two main flaws in the treatment of piracy under the major document in international law, the United Nations Convention on the Law of the