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16 Jul 2021 / Singapore Strait, Singapore
Incidents of armed robbery in the Singapore Strait continued to climb in the first half of this year, with 20 reported between January and June. This is four more than the number during the same period last year, when such incidents hit a five-year high.
The spike comes amid an overall improvement in Asia waters, with 37 reported incidents this year compared with 57 for the same period last year - marking a 35% decrease.
The alarm was raised by the Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia (ReCaap) Information Sharing Centre, which released its half-year statistics today (July 16).
The 20 incidents in the Singapore Strait so far this year accounts for more than half the total number reported in Asia. All occurred in Indonesian waters, with 19 in the east-bound lane of the Traffic Separation Scheme. Most were low level, but an area of concern is a cluster of 16 incidents off Tanjung Pergam in Bintan, Indonesia where five ships were attacked just last month. All 16 were on larger ships, such as bulk carriers and tankers, and in the hours of darkness.
There were two incidents where the crew were threatened and two where they were assaulted.
There were seven incidents where the perpetrators were reportedly armed with knives, up from four incidents involving knives in that area for the whole of 2020.
In 12 of the incidents, the perpetrators accessed the engine room of the ship. In six of them, engine spare parts were stolen.
ReCaap said the majority of the incidents involved groups of three to four men, although there was one instance in January where 10 people armed with knives were seen in the engine room of a bulk carrier en route to China.
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