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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

• Four incidents have been recorded globally during this reporting period. 
• West Africa VRA/HRA: One incident has been reported this week. 
• Southeast Asia Region: No incidents have been reported this week. 
• Indian Ocean VRA/HRA: Two incidents have been reported this week. 
• Americas Region: One incident has been reported this week.

• One incident reported this week. 

• Incident that took place this week saw a robbery occur on a berthed offshore supply vessel at Lagune Ebrie, Abidjan Port, Ivory Coast. 

• There have now been fifty robberies that have taken place in the region so far this year accounting for 36% of the total incidents.

• So far in quarter four there have been forty two incidents. That’s double the amount of incidents compared to quarter three.

• Two incidents reported this week. 
• The incidents this week saw two general alerts issued. One for a live firing exercise taking place between 0830 – 1400UTC on 9th December in the Persian Gulf and one that was issued following an explosion on a tanker whilst carrying out operations approximately 6nm southwest of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
• Thirty two general alerts have now been issued in the region accounting for 56% of the total incidents.
• The month of November saw a total of nine incidents in the region. A 28% increase compared to last month and a 350% increase when compared to November 2019.

• No incidents reported this week. 

• The last incident to take place in the region saw a robbery occur on an underway bulk carrier in the Singapore Strait on 30th November.

• There have now been ninety seven incidents in the region this year. Ninety two of these have been robberies accounting for 95% of the total incidents.

• November saw a total of ten incidents in the region. That’s an 11% increase from October and also November 2019.

• One incident reported this week. 
• The incident this week saw a robbery occur on an anchored bulk carrier at Macapa Anchorage, Brazil.
• There have been seven robberies that have taken place in Brazil so far this year accounting for 21% of the total incidents in the region.
• The month of November has seen a total of one incident. This is a fall of 83% when compared to last month and a fall of 75% compared to November 2019.

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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