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UKMTO Weekly Piracy Report 04 – 10 May 2023

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

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UKMTO Weekly Piracy Report 27 April – 03 May 2023

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

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Piracy and Sea Robbery Conference 2023 – Ways to Forge Stronger Partnerships to Ensure Safe and Secure Seas

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 ...

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Maritime security: 2022 year in review

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 ...

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Asia’s Q1 piracy incidents up 9% on year: ReCAAP

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 ...

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ReCAAP Information Sharing Centre and United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Global Maritime Crime Programme Strengthen Partnership to Combat Maritime Crimes

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 ...

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Maritime Roundtable on “Criticality of Timely and Accurate Reporting of Piracy and Sea Robbery Incidents”

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 ...

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UKMTO Weekly Piracy Report 20 – 26 April 2023

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

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UKMTO Weekly Piracy Report 13 – 19 April 2023

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

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Oil tanker with Korean crew member returns safely to port after pirate attack

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 ...

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Hijacked Singapore-registered oil tanker recovered in Ivory Coast

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 ...

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IMB records lowest level of Q1 piracy since 1993 in 2023 report

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 ...

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UKMTO Weekly Piracy Report 06 – 12 April 2023

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

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Risk firm: Pirates board Chinese-run ship in Gulf of Guinea

Pirates boarded a Chinese-run oil tanker in West Africa’s Gulf of Guinea, a risk management company operating in the area told The Associated Press on Tuesday. It was the second such incident in a little more than two weeks. Pirates got on the ship, Success 9, approximately 300 nautical miles southwest of Ivory Coast’s capital on Monday, according to Martin Kelly, a senior analyst with the London-based EOS Risk Group. It’s unclear how many crew members were on the tanker or how many pirates boarded the vessel. “Whilst the details ...

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Singaporean among crew on Singapore-registered tanker boarded by ‘unidentified persons’ off Ivory Coast

A Singapore-registered oil tanker was boarded by “unidentified persons” off Ivory Coast at about 10pm (Singapore time) on Monday (Apr 10), the Maritime and Port Authority (MPA) said late on Tuesday. Of the 20 crew members on the Success 9, one is a Singaporean, said MPA. It did not give the nationalities of the remaining crew. The ship was boarded about 300 nautical miles (556km) off the Abidjan Coast. MPA said it is working with the ship owner, the Monrovia Regional Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre and the Information Fusion Centre ...

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