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

• One incident reported this week.

• The incident saw a fishing vessel attacked whilst underway approximately 60nm south of Cotonou, Guinea. Six members of crew were kidnapped in the attack.

• There has been two kidnapping incidents this month that has seen a total eight people kidnapped. The previous month saw two kidnapping incidents with a total of five people kidnapped.

• There has been a total of six incidents in June. The same amount as June 2019 and a 60% decrease from May 2020.

• One incident reported this week.
• This saw a suspicious approach occur on a container ship whilst underway approximately 30nm north of Point Alpha in the Gulf of Aden.
• This was the first incident in the region since a suspicious approach took place on a tanker on 20th May 2020.
• Tankers are the most common type of vessel to be involved in the region’s incidents. 48% of the total incidents in the region have involved tankers.

• No incidents reported this week. One incident has been included that was received after last week’s report was sent.

• The incident last week saw a robbery occur on a tanker whilst anchored at Ko Sichang anchorage, Thailand.

• There have been five incidents so far this month. This is a 67% decrease from May. This is a similar drop in incidents to this time last year.

• 92% of the incidents in the region so far this year are robberies. This is at similar level when compared with 2019. Last year 87% of the incidents in the region were robberies.

• One incident reported this week.
• This incident saw an attempted robbery take place on an anchored bulk carrier at Callao anchorage, Peru.
• The main threat in the region comes from robberies. 90% of the incidents this year have been robberies.
• The month of June has so far seen three incidents. That’s equivalent to last month and one more than in June 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 BMP5. 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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