The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has called for an immediate end to attacks on ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden that victimise innocent seafarers.

The Master of a Marshall Islands-flagged bulker was injured by sea robbers when the vessel was boarded in the Malacca Strait.

The number of armed robberies against ship in Asia was up 40% at 59 in the first half of the year according to the ReCAAP Information Sharing Centre, with the Singapore and Malacca Straits accounting for two-thirds.

The Information Fusion Centre (IFC) has released a photo of a boat used in sea robberies against merchant vessels plying the busy Singapore Straits.

Some nine years in the making High Eye’s Airboxer unmanned helicopter system can be used for both commercial and military marine activities.

The Singapore-registered tanker Success-9 boarded by pirates in the Gulf of Guinea has been found five days after it went missing and all the crew are safe.

There has been no contact made with the Singapore-registered tanker Success 9 believed to have been hijacked by pirates on 10 April in the Gulf Guinea.

Reported piracy incidents in the first quarter 2023 were the lowest Q1 figures since 1993.

The Singapore authorities say they are working closely with parties involved in the suspected hijacking of the Singapore-registered tanker Success 9 off Cote d’lvoire.