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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

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

• No incidents reported this week. 
  

• The latest reported incident saw an attempted robbery take place on an offshore supply vessel at Luanda Anchorage, Angola.

• The last reported pirate attack took place on 22nd October 2020 in which pirates successfully boarded a tanker but were unsuccessful in kidnapping any crew members.

• Year to date, pirates have been successful in kidnapping ninety eight crew members.

• Two incidents reported this week. 
  
• The first incident reported that a vessel was approached near Point Alpha of the IRTC, Gulf of Aden. The second incident was a notification from the UKMTO of a live Iranian Military exercise in the Persian Gulf.
• There have now been three suspicious approaches in this region over the last three months.
• Tankers have been involved in 41% of incidents for this region year to date.

• One incident reported this week. One incident has been included that was received after last week’s report was sent. 

• The first incident saw an additional attempted robbery against a bulk carrier in the Singapore Strait, whilst the second incident was an attempted robbery onboard a tanker at Dumai Anchorage. 

• Tankers have been involved in 36% of incidents in Southeast Asia in 2020.

• There has been a 36% increase in reported robberies year to date.

• No incidents reported this week. 
• The latest reported incident saw a robbery occur on an anchored tanker at Callao Anchorage, Peru.
• Bulk Carriers have been involved in 35% of the reported incidents in the region for the year.
• Year to date, robberies have accounted for 90% of the total reported incidents.

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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