Vessel has sailed to a safe port
According to the International Maritime Bureau (IMB)’s Piracy Reporting Centre, the crew of the product tanker Orkim Victory was taken hostage after their vessel was hijacked by pirates eight nautical miles off the coast of Pu Aur, Malaysia.
Armed persons boarded and hijacked a product tanker underway.
They took hostage all crew members, altered course and sailed the vessel until it rendezvoused with another vessel into which part of the oil cargo was transferred and stolen.
Before departing, crew and ship properties were stolen and all communication equipment was damaged. All crew reported safe.
IMB reports that vessel has sailed to a safe port.
Also, IMB report last week that an unnamed bulk carrier was boarded with at berth 3.7 nm west of Patenga, Bangladesh. Five robbers armed with knives boarded an anchored bulk carrier with a rope ladder. The robbers tried to attack the crew watchmen. Alarm raised and crew mustered. Upon hearing the alarm, the robbers escaped with stolen ship’s properties.
Source: IMB Piracy Reporting Centre
