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IFC - Information Fusion Centre - MARSEC Weekly Report


PIRACY/ROBBERY


Events reported last week :

  • 6  (2 attempted actions, 4 sea thefts);

  • 2 on ships underway in Singapore Strait - others on ships anchored/berthed in Indonesia (Merak Anchorage, Anyer Anchorage, Tanjung Uban Anchorage and Belawan Port);


Total events : 46 incidents since the beginning of the year (compared to 25 at the same date in 2019);


Dangerous areas identified:

  • Singapore Strait: 21 incidents in 2017, 20 in 2018, 45 in 2019, 17 in 2020 (only 6 events in Singapore strait at this date in 2019). 

  • Sulu Sea

    • Last incident occurred on 16/01/2020 with a kidnapping at sea against five fishermen on a fishing vessel. Request of a 580 000 $ of ransom by ASG still in progress;

    • ASG is planning to conduct kidnapping activities in/off Sabah targeting foreigners/seafarers in the month of May. The group should depart from Sulu to Tawi-Tawi and thereafter to Sabah onboard a high-powered boat. latest information received on 23 May indicated that ESSCOM spotted the ASG and chased them back to Tawi-Tawi waters towards Sitankai;

Following anchorage areas

  • Indonesia: Anyer, Batam, Begawan, Belawan, Dumai, Merak, Panjang, Sandakan, Samarinda, Taboneo and Tanjung Uban;

  • Philippines: Manille, Batangas, General Santos Harbour;

  • Bangladesh: Chittagong;

  • Vietnam: Vung Tau, Ho Chi Minh;

  • India: Kakinada, Alang.

IUU


  • 15/05: Three foreign fishermen onboard two Vietnamese fishing vessels were apprehended Off Sattahip, Chonburi Province;

  • 20/05 : The Directorate General of Marine and Fisheries Resources Supervision of the Indonesia Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries arrested two illegal fishing vessels in the Indonesian Fisheries Management Area.

CONTRABAND


  • 09/05: The Malaysia Maritime Enforcement Agency in cooperation with the Royal Malaysian Police have thwarted a drug syndicate attempt near Marina Bay Beach, Port Dickson suspected for transhipment a 113-kilogram of drugs (Meth (80.87 Kg) and Ecstasy (31.8 Kg)) to Indonesia by sea;

  • 14/05: A barge smuggling 5000 tons of coal was seized by the chinese Coast Guard, the agency announced on Sunday;

  • 14/05: The China Coast Guard boarded a ship with some 5,000 tons of sea sand in the Chongming area;

  • 17/05: The Marine Police Force thwarted an attempt to smuggle 90,000 litres of petrol worth RM117,900 (US$27,000) to the Philippines.

 
 
 

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