Tag: Gulf of Aden

A Panamanian oil tanker was attacked by pirates in the Gulf of Aden, off Balhaf, Yemen, on Saturday, April 15th, but was rescued by Chinese Naval Forces. A motor skiff with 5 armed men on board approached the "Alheera" vessel and tried to hijack it, by sending shots several times.

On the account of recent piracy incident on Indian Mechanized Sailing Vessel in Somalia region, the Indian Directorate General of Shipping issued a Maritime Security Advisory to ships transiting Gulf of Aden.

A Foreign Merchant Vessel MV OS 35, Tuvalu registered vessel, was attacked and boarded by pirates in the Gulf of Aden late night on 08 April 2017. Indian Naval ships responded to the incident and all 19 Filipino crew members are safe.

UK P&I club informed that, since the end of March, there has been a re-escalation in the number of suspicious approaches around the Southern Red Sea, Bab-el-Mandeb and Gulf of Aden. This rise in activity has cumulated with the confirmed taking of one Indian Fishing Dhow CASAYR II and the MT ARIS 13, which was subsequently released.

The military of Seoul announced, on 5 March, that South Korea's 4,400-ton destroyer, "Choe Yeong", joined a EU military operation to combat piracy in the Gulf of Aden, Somalia. The exercise mainly concerned escorting commercial ships in dangerous areas and, also, anti-piracy reconnaissance.

IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim and Operation Commander Major General Rob Magowan of the EU Naval Force Operation Atalanta reiterated the key message that merchant shipping should continue to take protective measures against possible piracy attacks, when they at IMO Headquarters in London.

IMB reports that a number of pirates attempted to approach a container ship while it was underway in five skiffs from astern in the Gulf of Aden on May 16 but successfully prevented from boarding when a security team from Solace Global, which was protecting the boxship, fired warning shots .

New boundaries for the HRA - further practical measures for implementation BIMCO advised that the co-sponsors of BMP 4 have agreed to a revised definition of the High Risk Area. The High Risk Area is now defined as being bounded by:In the Red Sea: Latitude 15oNIn the Gulf of Oman: Latitude 22oNEastern limit: Longitude 065oESouthern limit: Latitude 5oSAmendment to section 2 of BMP 4, accompanying guidance on the revision's impact and further practical measures for implementation in the context of company and shipboard planning as described in sections 6 and 7 of BMP 4.The revisions are effective and will formally apply as of 1 December 2015, in order to give shipping companies and crews time to adapt to them.It is strongly recommended that the revisions are taken into account as soon as possible for voyages through the VRA and HRA for which risk assessments are yet to be conducted, as the changes may have implications for charter party and insurance agreements as well as ship security.The revisions will be provided on industry websites, includingwww.bimco.org, as well as NATO Shipping Centre (www.shipping.nato.int) and MSCHOA (www.mschoa.org).It is not anticipated that there will be a need to publish a fully revised version of ...

ICS warns Organisations representing the global shipping and oil industry have announced that the size of the High Risk Area for piracy in the Indian Ocean has been reduced and issued new advice to merchant ship operators.This reduction to the High Risk Area is in response to the ongoing containment of pirate attacks in the Indian Ocean, but a group of shipping and oil industry organisations (BIMCO, International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), Intercargo, INTERTANKO and the Oil Companies International Marine Forum (OCIMF) stressed that a serious threat remains and that correct reporting and vigilance remains crucial.The reduction of the High Risk Area takes full account of recent shipping industry experience, and follows extensive consultation with governments through the diplomatic Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia, and military naval forces, including NATO, Combined Maritime Forces and EU NAVFOR, which continue to provide vital protection to shipping.The new industry advice, which takes effect from 1 December 2015, changes that currently contained in the latest edition of Best Management Practices for Protection against Somali Based Piracy (BMP 4), which is jointly produced by the industry group. In summary:The area previously classified as "high risk" now forms only a part of ...

The EU NAVFOR Operation Commander stated that whilst Somali-based piracy in the Indian Ocean and Gulf of Aden is suppressed