Against Piracy and Sea Robbery
ReCAAP ISC and Information Fusion Centre (IFC) have jointly published a Tug Boats and Barges Guide (TaB) against piracy and sea robbey. The purpose of this guide is to capture tips, guidelines, reporting procedures andcontact details for tug boat owners, operators and crew in avoiding hijacking androbbery onboard tug boats and barges.
The guide contains inputs and experience oftug boat owners, operators and masters whose vessels had been robbed or hijacked;and modus operandi of the robbers and hijackers. In planning a passage, the guidehighlights the responsibilities of the ship owner, ship master and crew at the variousphases: the pre-sailing, sailing and post incident reporting/follow-up phases
Moreover, The ReCAAP InformationSharing Centre (ISC) and the Information Fusion Centre (IFC) have taken the initiativeto jointly produce a poster entitled “Guidelines for Tug Boats and Barges AgainstPiracy and Sea Robbery” (launched on 12 January 2012) Theposter outlines the factors and risks that tug boat’s owners, masters and crew needto consider during navigation, advices on how to minimize risks and protectionmeasures to adopt to avoid, deter and delay boarding by perpetrators.
Find more information by reading the Tug Boats and Barges Guide here
