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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

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

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

• These incidents saw a robbery on an anchored container vessel at Pointe Noire Anchorage, Congo, a pirate attack that occurred on a tanker whilst underway 105nm south of Lagos, Nigeria and an attempted robbery on an offshore supply vessel at Luanda Anchorage, Angola

• The pirate attack that took place south of Lagos, saw pirates board the vessel and ransack the crew’s cabins and destroy items of Bridge equipment, all crew were able to retreat to the Citadel.

• Year to date, pirate attacks account for 32% of the total incidents.

• No incidents reported this week. 
• The last alert released was a general alert issued notifying mariners that a live military exercise was carried out by Iranian Forces between 14th October and 21st October. 
• There have now been four general alerts issued for Iranian military exercises including live firing exercises in the last two months.
• General alerts issued for the year to date account for 49% of the total alerts.

• Three incidents reported this week. 

• All three incidents were attempted robberies targeting bulk carriers in the Singapore Strait over the course of three hours.

• Bulk carriers have been involved in twenty six reported incidents this year, accounting for 34% of the total incidents.

• Year to date, incidents have occurred on thirty four vessels that have been underway which is 40% of the total incidents.

• No incidents reported this week.
• The latest reported incident saw a robbery occur on an anchored tanker at Callao Anchorage, Peru.
• Robberies account for 90% of the reported incidents in the region for the year.
• There has already been a 3% rise in incidents in the region year to date.

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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