MPA Singapore offers recommendations to optimize navigation techniques, regulate action to avoid collision, and address emergency rescue measures for merchant vessels navigating in the coastal waters of China.
Th International Maritime Organization (IMO) has published its Monthly Piracy Report for the month of September.
The following acts of piracy and armed robbery are allegedly committed against ships during the month of September 2023, reported by IMO Member States or international organizations in consultative status.
Three actual incidents of armed robbery against ships (two CAT 3 and one CAT 4) in Asia, between 17th and 23rd October.
Of the three incidents, one occurred on 18 Oct 23 to a container ship while berthed at container terminal, Sandakan, Malaysia. The other two incidents occurred on 23 and 24 Oct to bulk carriers, while underway in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore (SOMS).
A stevedore was fortunate to escape with a fractured leg after being run over by a forklift truck on the stern ramp of a ro-ro ferry.