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Please find below our most recent Weekly Maritime Report. If you have any queries about our reports please contact us at africaops@castorvali.com

• One incident has been recorded globally during this reporting period.
• West Africa VRA/HRA No incidents have been reported this week.
• Indian Ocean VRA/HRA No incidents have been reported this week.
• Southeast Asia Region One incident has been reported this week.
• Americas Region No incidents have been reported this week. As we received it after sending last week’s weekly report, one incident that occurred last week has been included in this weekly report

• No incidents reported this week.

• The last incident to take place in the region was an attempted robbery that occurred on an anchored container ship at Luanda anchorage, Angola on 9 September.

• There have now been thirty four robberies in the region so far this year accounting for 37 of the total incidents This is similar to last year when robberies accounted for 41 of the total incidents.

• This was the fifth robbery to occur in Angola so far this year,
  accounting for 5 of the incidents in the region.

• No incidents reported this week.
  
• The last alert that was issued was a general alert that
  relates to the Increased Yemeni Coastguard patrols
  being conducted in the Bab El Mandeb on 9 September.
• There have been a total of sixteen general alerts issued
  in the region so far this year, accounting for 46 of the
  total incidents.

• One incident reported this week.

• The incident this week saw a robbery occur on an
  anchored tanker at Rizhao Shelter Anchorage, China.

• Tanker vessels have now been involved in twenty eight incidents so far this year, accounting for 36 of the total incidents in the region.

• So far this year there have been a total of seventy seven
  incidents in the region Robberies are by far the most
  common type of incident with a total of seventy two
  occurring so far this year.

• No incidents reported this week One incident has been
  included that was received after last week’s report was sent.
• The incident from last week saw an attempted robbery
  occurred on a container vessel at Callao anchorage, Peru.
• Of the twenty three incidents this year anchored vessels have been in fifteen 70 of them This is similar to last year
  where anchored vessels accounted for 64 of the incidents.
• Container vessels have now been involved in five (22%) of the total incidents in the region.
  
  

This report is produced in partnership with with Clearwater (CWD).  All findings are predictive and estimative. To communicate these findings clearly and in order to accurately compare threat levels, the report uses a variation of terminology used by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO).

Piracy: CWD/CV have adopted the definition of piracy similar to that given in the BMP. Content within this document uses the term ‘piracy’ which includes all violent and non-violent acts against vessels, her crew and cargo which have taken place either in internal waterways, territorial waters or deep offshore. CWD/CV classifies piracy incidents into six categories:

Hijacking – Crew lost control of the vessel for a sufficient period of time and then pirates kidnapped at least one crewmember and/or passenger (s)

Pirate Attack – Vessel was attacked with gunfire or RPG fire and/or then boarded the vessel with the intent to hijack and/or kidnap at least one crewmember(s) and/or passenger(s)

Robbery – Vessel is boarded with criminal intent, theft does not have to occur

Suspicious approach/vessels – Suspicious activity reported (i.e. a vessel was approached by unidentified craft with one or more persons on board) or sighting of firearms and boarding equipment on board a suspicious vessel and/or sighting of a confirmed pirate mother ship

General Alert – A reported incident has been released by authorities to notify seafarers of a possible incident which is still being investigated/confirmed. This can also be a warning of an imminent Danger to seafarers

Caution – An unconfirmed warning of an incident that could affect seafarers which CWD Operations Centre has received.

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