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22 Jan 2020 / Singapore
The ReCAAP [Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia] Information Sharing Centre (ISC) has released an incident alert recently for incidents involving ships while underway in the eastbound lane of Singapore Strait.
On 18 January 2020, two incidents occurred within an interval of five hours to the same barge carrying scrap metal while underway in the eastbound lane of Singapore Strait. In both incidents, the perpetrators stole some scrap metal. There was no confrontation between the perpetrators and the crew.
With these two incidents, a total of three incidents have been reported in the Singapore Strait since January 2020. The first incident in 2020 occurred on 8 January 2020 to tanker, British Mariner while underway in the eastbound lane of the TSS in the Singapore Strait.
ReCAAP strongly advised all ships to exercise utmost vigilance, adopt extra precautionary measures and report all incidents immediately to the nearest coastal State.
(For information about operations in Singapore contact GAC Singapore at [email protected])
Source: Singapore Shipping Association (http://www.ssa.org.sg) update of 22 January 2020