On the trail of fuel oil pirates
Latest ReCAAP report makes grim reading.
On the trail of fuel oil pirates in Southeast Asia
By Vincent Wee from Hong Kong
The most recent ReCAAP ISC half yearly report has revealed the scale of the sharp rise in fuel siphoning and hijacking incidents in the first half of the year and also revealed some patterns in the practice.
Regular followers of Seatrade Maritime News would have noticed the increasing regularity with which incidents of hijacking, leading to siphoning/theft of fuel cargoes, have occurred in the South China Sea (SCS) as well as the Straits of Malacca and Singapore (SOMS), especially in the last two months.
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Source: seatrade-maritime.com
