Warnings, advisories and piracy incidents in the Indian Ocean Area by the UKMTO in the past week.

Warnings, advisories and piracy incidents in the Indian Ocean Area by the UKMTO in the past week.

The US is leading 10 other nations in stepping up patrols in the Middle East, specifically in and around the Strait of Hormuz, where Iran seized two merchant vessels since late April alone. The Defense Department “will be making a series of moves to bolster our defensive posture in the Arabian Gulf,” or the Persian Gulf, White House spokesperson John Kirby told reporters May 12, according to AFP and other news wires. “Iran’s unwarranted, irresponsible and unlawful seizure and harassment of merchant vessels must stop,” the US 5th Fleet’s commander, ...

Warnings, advisories and piracy incidents in the Indian Ocean Area by the UKMTO in the past week.

Warnings, advisories and piracy incidents in the Indian Ocean Area by the UKMTO in the past week.

The ReCAAP Information Sharing Centre (ISC), together with the three co-organisers BIMCO, INTERTANKO and the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), held an annual Piracy and Sea Robbery Conference today in conjunction with Singapore Maritime Week 2023. This year’s conference featured a two-part panel discussion where panellists deliberated on the importance of “Partnership” between the shipping industry and law enforcement agencies in combating piracy and armed robbery against ships, to ensure safe and secure seas for seafarers. Dr Heike Deggim, Director of the Maritime Safety Division at the International ...

According to the ICC International Maritime Bureau’s (IMB) annual piracy report (2022), global piracy has hit a 30-year low and is declining for the second year in a row. The ICC IMB’s annual report shows a 13% drop in overall attacks in 2022 compared to 2021, where the decline has been attributed primarily to the decrease in activity in the Gulf of Guinea. The report recorded a total of 115 incidents of piracy and armed robbery against ships in 2022 – compared to 132 in 2021 – with half of ...

Sea robbery and piracy related incidents in Asia rose 9% year on year to 25 in the first quarter of 2023 due to more of such attacks in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore, an international watchdog monitoring the trend said late April 27. More than 75% of these incidents took place in the Singapore Straits, according to ReCAAP, the Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia. Its share was 65% and 60% in the whole of 2022 and 2021, the data showed. ReCAAP’s ...

The ReCAAP Information Sharing Centre (ISC) and United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Global Maritime Crime Programme (GMCP) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen cooperation between the two organisations in combating maritime crime and piracy and armed robbery against ships in Asia. Under the MoU, ReCAAP ISC and UNODC GMCP have agreed to exchange information and material on threats and trends related to maritime crime, piracy and armed robbery against ships in Asia. The MoU will also facilitate reciprocal representation by the ReCAAP ISC and ...

Senior representatives from the shipping industry, law enforcement agencies, international organisations and academia participated in the second ReCAAP ISCRSIS Maritime Roundtable yesterday, held in conjunction with the Singapore Maritime Week 2023. Participants had a robust deliberation on the topic of “Criticality of Timely and Accurate Reporting – Assessment.” In the first roundtable held in 2018, the law enforcement agencies had given feedback that the lack of timely and accurate incident reporting from the shipping community was a key factor inhibiting prompt response and the timely arrest of perpetrators. Delays in ...

Warnings, advisories and piracy incidents in the Indian Ocean Area by the UKMTO in the past week.

Warnings, advisories and piracy incidents in the Indian Ocean Area by the UKMTO in the past week.

All 20 crew members were said to be in good health, according to the Foreign Ministry in Seoul. The 4,374-ton oil tanker was in waters 309 nautical miles south of the Ivory Coast when it went radio silent around 3 p.m. on April 10. The crew consists of a Korean chief engineer, one Chinese national, one Singaporean, two Indonesian and 15 Myanmar nationals. Having experienced similar instances when oil tankers went silent while under attack by pirates, the Foreign Ministry in Seoul put together a special response team within the ...

A hijacked Singapore-registered oil tanker has been recovered and escorted to Abidjan port in Ivory Coast on Saturday, five days after it was captured by pirates in the Gulf of Guinea, the Ivorian military said. On Tuesday, Singapore’s port authority said the tanker had been boarded by “unidentified persons” about 300 nautical miles (555 km) off Ivory Coast with 20 crew of various nationalities aboard. A search operation by Ivory Coast’s navy backed by a French navy aircraft located the vessel on Saturday, Ivorian Armed Forces Chief of Staff Lassina ...

London and Kuala Lumpur 13 April 2023: The ICC International Maritime Bureau (IMB) calls for continued, robust and coordinated regional and international naval presence to act as a deterrent to prevent and respond to piracy. The ICC International Maritime Bureau (IMB) has recorded the lowest level of reported global piracy and armed robbery incidents since 1993 but calls for continued vigilance and naval response in its first quarter piracy and armed robbery report for 2023. The report reveals 27 incidents were reported in the first quarter of the year, representing ...