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During 24-30 May 22, two incidents of armed robbery against ships in Asia were reported, comprising one CAT 3 incident and one CAT 4 incident.
The incidents occurred to a tanker and a bulk carrier while underway in the Singapore Strait (SS) on 27 and 28 May, within an interval of five hours, and at close proximity to each other. The details of the incidents are as follows:
On 27 May at about 2230 hrs, the 4th engineer sighted three unauthorised persons in the steering gear room of the ship. The alarm was raised and a search on board the ship was conducted. The master reported the incident to Singapore Vessel Traffic Information System (VTIS) West. There was no further sighting of the perpetrators. Nothing was stolen and the crew was not injured.
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Greece’s Shipping Ministry has made a “strong recommendation” to Greek shipping companies to avoid Iranian territorial waters when crossing the Persian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz and Gulf of Oman.
The guidance comes after Iranian warnings that more Greek tankers currently in the Persian Gulf could be seized amid a row over the confiscation of Iranian oil by the United States from a tanker held off Greece’s coast.
Earlier, Iran responded to calls from France and the EU to release the Greek tankers it seized on May 27, with renewed threats against Greek shipping.
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) detained two Greek-flagged oil tankers in the Persian Gulf on May 27. The vessels have been identified as the MV Delta Poseidon, and the MV Prudent Warrior.
The two vessels stopped transmitting on AIS, at 13:06UTC, and 11:08UTC respectively. Both vessels were boarded by IRGC helicopters, who subsequently detained the vessels and crews. The last position received for both vessels was in international waters. Commenting on the incident, Athens said both actions violated international law.
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Ukrainian media published photos of a product tanker that was allegedly hit by cluster submunition and damaged, on June 1.
According to information, a single submunition hit the tanker Brentix towards the bow on the morning of June 1. The explosion appears to have penetrated the deck and the side of the hull in way of a pump room, causing damage to hull plating and piping. The blast sparked a fire, but was extinguished quickly.
The vessel was in ballast condition at the time of the attack, and no pollution or injuries were reported.
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Djunaidi, the provincial search and rescue agency head of Indonesia, informed that 25 individuals had been missing since last Thursday when their boat reportedly sunk in the Makassar Strait in South Sulawesi province. Yesterday, the Associated Press reported that survivors of the Indonesian have been rescued by local fishermen, leaving 11 people still missing.
The ferry was carrying 42 people when it capsized after running out of fuel in bad weather in the Makassar Strait. Djunaidi has reported that the search and rescue agency got some new information about the sunken boat’s location on Saturday and dispatched crew members to the area. The captain and other crew of the cargo vessel, were among those rescued Monday.
The vessel was initially described as a passenger ferry, but Djunaidi later clarified that it was a cargo boat carrying construction materials. Thirty-six passengers had asked for a ride on the boat with its six crew members.
Ferry tragedies are common in Indonesia, an archipelago of more than 17,000 islands, where ferries are often used for transport and safety regulations are often disregarded.
In 2018, an overcrowded ferry with about 200 people on board sank in a deep volcanic crater lake in North Sumatra province, killing 167 people.