Loss Prevention Advice
- Details
- News /
On January 14, the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) announced that the search for the Malaysian cargo ship MV Dai Cat 06, which went missing in Indonesian water on January 9, had been officially called off.
MMEA reached this decision as there were no leads to continue with the search, with Datuk Mohd Zubil Mat Som, the director general of MMEA, saying that the Malaysian Maritime assets are continuing their investigation in Malaysian waters.
- Details
- News /
A total of 84 incidents of piracy and armed robbery against ships (80 actual and four attempted incidents) were reported in Asia in the year 2022.
Summary of analytics of incidents
- Majority of the incidents were CAT 4 (52%)
- Number of perpetrators: 4-6 men (33%), 1-3 men (27%)
- 58% that perpetrators did not carry weapons or no information on the weapons carried, 32% armed with knives, machetes and other weapons, 10% armed with guns and knives
- 80% reported crew not ‘confronted’ by perpetrators or no report on ‘crew treatment’
- 63% reported loss of items, 33% nothing was lost, 4% losses cannot be ascertained Ship stores were mostly stolen
- Type of ships boarded: tankers (35%), bulk carriers (29%), tug boats/supply vessels (15%)
- 81% of incidents occurred during hours of darkness
- Details
- News /
A European reefer has escaped a possible pirate attack in the Gulf of Guinea on January 11, after it was approached by two skiffs.
The Lithuania-flagged ship was heading for Douala, Cameroon, when it reported being approached by two skiffs.
- Details
- News /
Somalia’s government-led forces have captured an al Shabaab stronghold on the Indian Ocean coast, the defence minister said on Monday, in one of their most significant victories since launching an offensive against the Islamist group last year.
The forces took the port town of Harardhere as well as the nearby town of Galcad in central Somalia’s Galmudug region, Defence Minister Abdulkadir Mohamed Nur said in a broadcast on state-owned television.
Harardhere was a major base for pirates hijacking merchant ships until 2011. It was later taken over by al Shabaab, which first rose up against the government in 2007 before pledging its allegiance to al Qaeda.