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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.
• Indian Ocean VRA/HRA One incident has been reported this week. 
• Southeast Asia Region One incident has been reported this week.
• Americas Region One incident 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 general alert issued following media reports of an attack on a passenger boat transiting between Oron and Calabar, Rivers State, Nigeria Two robberies also occurred, one on an anchored container vessel at Pointe Noire Anchorage, Congo and one that took place on a tanker at Lagos Port, Nigeria.

• There have now been eight incidents so far this year involving passenger vessels accounting for 8% of the total incidents.

• There have now been thirty nine robberies so far this year accounting for 39% of the total incidents

• One incident reported this week, one incident has been included that was received after last week’s report was sent.
• The incident saw one general alerts issued for an explosion on a tanker whilst operating at an oil terminal off Yemen.
• One robbery also occurred on a bulk carrier whilst anchored at Kakinada Anchorage, India. There have now been fifteen robberies in the region accounting for 36% of the total incidents.

• One incident reported this week. 

• This incident saw an attempted robbery occur on an underway bulk carrier in the Eastbound lane of the Traffic Separation Scheme, Singapore Strait. 

• Twenty of the incidents that have taken place so far this year have occurred in Singapore accounting for 25 of the total incidents.

• Bulk carrier’s have now been involved in twenty five incidents so far this year accounting for 31 of the total incidents.

• One incident reported this week. 
• The incident saw an attempted robbery occur on an anchored bulk carrier at Macapa anchorage, Brazil.
• Five of the incidents so far this year have taken in Brazil accounting for 18% of the total incidents.
• September saw a total of three incidents This is three more than last month and a 50 increase compared to September 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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