A piracy incident involving the asphalt/bitumen tanker Bitu River was reported on 17th March. The vessel was boarded by five armed pirates off the coast of São Tomé and Príncipe.
Three incidents of robbery against tugs and barges in the Singapore and Malacca Strait have underscored concern over the rising number of boardings in the key waterway.
Concerns over a resurgence in piracy off Somalia have heightened this year with a series of hijacking of dhows which could be used as motherships for attacks on larger merchant vessels.
On 17-18 April 2018, the Combined Maritime Forces (CMF) co-chaired the 42ndShared Awareness and De-confliction (SHADE) conference in Bahrain alongside EU NAVFOR. Over 110 people attended the conference including representatives from maritime shipping partners alongside the independent maritime naval force representatives from Russia, China and...
Seychelles will make land available for the construction of a Pan African shipping line head office which will be the centre for all ship owners in Africa, and act as a hub for all activities related to the maritime sectors.
MUSCAT: The Maritime Security Centre carried out the Maritime Security Exercise 2018, which took place in Al Duqm area in the Omani Territorial Sea (Arabian Sea), with the participation of a number of corps of the Sultan’s Armed Forces (SAF) and other security services, with the participation of forces from the...
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