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The International Maritime Security Construct (IMSC) is still operating in the Middle East Gulf, as it led a bilateral exercise in the Arabian Gulf.
Royal Bahraini Naval Ship Hawar partnered with U.S. Coast Guard to conduct communications drills and tactical manoeuvres, which increased overall interoperability between coalition militaries to provide maritime stability in the region.
The exercise also aims to promote maritime stability, ensure safe passage, and enhance freedom of navigation throughout key waterways in the Arabian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz, the Bab el-Mandeb, and the Gulf of Oman.
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The European Union (EU) aims to continue the deployment of its member states’ warships in the Gulf of Guinea to address maritime piracy in the area.
After reviewing the Coordinated Maritime Presences (CMP) pilot program in which member states have been deploying warships to the region over the last two years, the EU now wants to maintain its presence, taking into consideration the threat of piracy and other illegal activities in the Gulf of Guinea.
Namely, the EU suggests a two-year extension of the CMP mandates beginning from January, also outlining deployments of Danish, French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish warships into the region.
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Reporting indicates that the owners of the product vessel MT B Ocean have lost contact with the vessel on the evening of the 24th January 22.
The vessel was operating as a bunker vessel 54nm SSW of Abidjan when contact was lost and this was a cyber-attack,
More specifically, the pirates boarded and hijacked the vessel before departing the vessel with stolen cargo. All crew are reported safe.
Law enforcement agencies have now been tasked with tracking the vessel.
While further details remain unclear, information released by MDAT GoG indicated that a report had been received from local fishermen along the western coast of Ghana indicating that a group of unidentified individuals had been sighted reportedly putting to see a local fishing boat with a high-powered outboard motor in the early hours of 24 January 2022.
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The Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia is the first regional government-to-government agreement to promote and enhance cooperation against piracy and armed robbery in Asia. In its Annual Report for 2021, the following data regarding piracy and armed robbery against ships are discussed.
There was a total of 82 incidents of armed robbery against ships reported in Asia in 2021, comprising 77 actual incidents and 5 attempted incidents. This represents a decrease of 15% compared to 2020. There was no piracy incident in 2021.
The improvement can be attributed to the decrease of incidents across many countries and locations, namely, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam, South China Sea and Sulu-Celebes Seas.
There was zero incident in Bangladesh, South China Sea as well as the Sulu-Celebes Seas. This is an encouraging development.
However, there was an increase of 15 incidents in the Singapore Strait (49 incidents in 2021 compared to 34 incidents in 2020).