ReCAAP: Nine Incidents Of Piracy And Armed Robbery Against Ships Reported In Asia, April 2020

An overall of 9 events of piracy and also heist versus ships were reported in Asia in April 2020. Of the 9 events, one was a piracy case and also 8 were events of heist versus ships. There was no record of kidnapping of team in the SuluCelebes Seas and also waters off Eastern Sabah in April 2020. However, the kidnapping of team for ransom money in the Sulu-Celebes Seas and also waters off Eastern Sabah stays a severe worry.

The ReCAAP ISC is additionally worried concerning the proceeded incident of events aboard ships while underway in theSingapore Strait With 3 events reported in April 2020, an overall of 12 events have actually been reported in the Singapore Strait considering that January 2020. Of the 12 events, 11 events took place in the eastbound lane of the Traffic Separation Scheme (TSS) and also one case in the preventive location in theSingapore Strait The ReCAAP ISC has actually released an Incident Alert (IA/04/2020) on 30 Apr 20 on the 3 events which took place throughout 16-30 Apr to ships while underway in the Singapore Strait.

Number Of Incidents

In April 2020, 9 events of piracy and also heist versus ships were reported. All were real events. No tried case was reported. All events have actually been validated and also reported to the ReCAAP ISC by ReCAAPFocal Points Refer to the Appendix on web pages 24-28 for a summary of the events.

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Graph 1 reveals the variety of events reported every month from April 2019 to April 2020. On a month-to-month contrast, the variety of complete events reported in April 2020 is less than the month-to-month variety of events in 2020, with the exception of the coming before month of March 2020.

Status Of Ships

Of the 9 events reported in April 2020, 5 events took place aboard ships when at support and also 4 events aboard ships while underway.

Significance Level Of Incidents

Of the 9 real events reported in April 2020, 2 were FELINE 3 events and also 7 were FELINE 4 events. No FELINE 1 or FELINE 2 case was reported in April 2020.

Of both FELINE 3 events, one case took place aboard a container ship secured at Manila International Container Terminal (MICT) Breakwater, Philippines, and also one case aboard a mass provider while underway in theSingapore Strait In both events, the wrongdoers were equipped with blades, and also the team was not hurt.

Four of the 7 FELINE 4 events took place aboard ships while at support (off Alang Anchorage, India, at Taboneo Anchorage, Indonesia, off Tanjung Kelesa, Johor, Malaysia and also at Vung Tau Anchorage, Vietnam). The various other 3 FELINE 4 events took place aboard ships while underway (2 events in the Singapore Strait and also one case in the South China Sea).