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14 Jun 15

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MARSEC WEEKLY REPORT
06 12 Jun 15

Figure 1: Location of Incidents in IFC Area of Interest

For the period from 06 12 Jun 15, IFC received information as follows:
IUU Fishing

Piracy / Sea Robbery / Sea Theft

Irregular Human Migration

Weapons Trafficking

Maritime Incidents

Contraband Trafficking

Natural Event

Maritime Terrorism

Note: 4 IUU Fishing, 5 Maritime Incidents, 2 Piracy/Sea Robbery/Sea Theft, 1 Weapons

Trafficking and 9 Contraband Trafficking were reported out of the reporting period.

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OVERVIEW OF INCIDENTS
Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing
08 Jun North Maluku Police Arrest
Philippines-Flagged Vessel/ West of
Halmahera / Philippines
Details: Philippines Fishing
captured off west of Halmahera.

Vessel

09 Jun - 31 Nabbed For Illegal Fishing/

Leyte/ Philippines
Details: Combined police and navy
operatives on Tuesday arrested a fishing
boat operator and his 30 crew members for
engaging in illegal fishing activities off
Hilongos, Leyte.
Events reported outside of the period:
21 May - Foreign Ship Fish Thieves
Arrested/ Indonesia
Details: One captain and four foreign
fishermen from Thailand, who steal fish in
Indonesian waters with evidence of fish as
much as 1 ton was arrested by North
Sumatra Police.
28 May - One Arrested for Illegal
Fishing /Jose Dalman/ Philippines

Details: 1 person was apprehended and a

fishing vessel locally known as
pakpakan was seized during an
operation. Arrested person and fishing
vessel with its accessories were released
from police custody after penalty
amounting to Php 2,500.00 was paid to
Jose Dalman LGU.
02 Jun - Navy Arrests 8 Persons with
286 Beche-der-mer/ Jaffna/ Sri Lanka
Details: Northern Naval Command
arrested eight persons with 286 Beche-dermer in the general area of Thuraiur in
Jaffna. Three underwater torches and five
face masks were also taken into naval
custody.
02 Jun - Quezon Cops Seize Homemade
Dynamite/ Quezon/ Philippines
Details: Combined operatives of the
Quezon Provincial Public Safety Company
seized at least 38 bags of ammonium
nitrate, a primary substance used in
making homemade dynamite, and arrested
two fishermen in Sitio Pamgahoy.

Irregular Human Migration

10 June - Illegal Migrants Waiting
Boats Arrested / Johor / Malaysia
08 June - Human Trafficking Victims
Rescued/ Zamboanga/ Philippines
Details: A total of 24 illegal immigrants
were arrested during a raid at Johor while
Details : Twenty-five human trafficking
they were trying to leave the country. The
victims, including 17 minors were rescued
Pengerang Marine Police made the arrest
in a coastal village in Zamboanga.
during the raid while the illegals were
waiting for a speed boat near the beach.
09 June - Trafficking Victims
Rescued/Mindanao/Philippines
Details : Operatives of the Police Station
have rescued 25 would-be victims of
human trafficking in a west coast village in
Mindanao.

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10 June - Boats With Migrants Waiting

To Enter Malaysia / Satun / Thailand
Details: Several boats operated by human
trafficking syndicates carrying migrants
from Myanmar and Bangladesh are in
international waters near the southern
Thailand town of Satun waiting to enter
Malaysia or to sail to Indonesia.

07 June - 12 Arrested in An Operation /

Johore / Malaysia
Details: A total of 12 illegal immigrants
were detained at a house in Kempas. It was
found that migrants are charged RM500 to
RM1,000 per person to help them return
by boat illegally from Kota Tinggi.

Maritime Incidents
08 June Coast Guard Dornier Aircraft
Missing Off Chennai Coast / Chenai /
India
Details: A Dornier aircraft of the Indian
Coast Guard which went missing off
Chennai coast with three crew members on
board was yet to be traced.
Comments: A massive search and rescue
operation has been launched off the
Chennai coast. The location of the aircraft,
however, has not been identified yet.
08 June Vessel Damaged After Hit by
Giant Wave / Indian Ocean
Details: The "Go Phoenix", one of the
ships involved in the search for the MH
370 wreckage, was forced back to the port
of Fremantle for repairs after giant waves
crashing over the deck of the ship and
broke the deep tow system.
09 June Boat Propeller Slices British
Diving Students Leg Off / Koh Tao /
Thailand
Details: A British diver was nearly
severed by a boat propeller while diving
near Koh Tao. The victim had just
completed a dive and was about to exit the
water when the accident happened.

10 June Container Ship Sank, Crew

Rescued / Guangzhou/ China
Details: The container feeder "Xin
Hong 328" sank near Guangzhou port
when en route from Hong Kong to Nansha
port's Dongfa pier. All eight crew
members on board the container feeder
were saved and recovered from the water.
Events reported outside of the period:
24 May PCG Rescues Passengers on
Distressed Boat / Romblon /Philippines
Details: A total of 68 passengers were
saved by the personnel of Coast Guard
Station (CGS) Romblon after their boat
encountered engine trouble a mile off
Logbon, Romblon.
24 May PCG Continue Search for 3
Missing Persons /Camotes Sea /
Philippines
Details: The Philippine Coast Guard in
Cebu is still on the look-out for three
persons who went missing at the vicinity
waters of Camotes Sea since May 24.

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05 Jun Collision / Hainan Isle/ China

Details: Stormy weather with strong winds
pushed the passenger ship "Hai Kou Jiu
Hao" aground in Haikou, Hainan Island
which then caused the allision of the "Yin
Zi Jing" with a beacon.
05 Jun Tourists Injured In Lombok
Ferry Explosion / Java / Indonesia

transporting them from Lombok to

Padangbai in Bali exploded. The explosion
occurred only moments after the ferry left
Senggigi in Lombok. The ferry was
carrying 129 passengers and en route to
Padangbai in Bali.
05 Jun Collision / 6.6nm NE of St
John's Lighthouse / Singapore
Details: COMMON SPIRIT and CSC
SHI HAI had 'minor contact' with each
other while on the West bound transit. No
injuries and no oil spill was reported.

Details: A number of tourists, including

four Australians and citizens of France,
Italy, the US, Britain and New Zealand,
were seriously injured when a ferry
Weapons Trafficking
Events reported outside of the period:

02 Jun - Arms Cache Found In Tourist Boat / Chao Phraya / Thailand

Details: Crime Suppression Division (CSD) and marine police arrested a Southerner after a
search of a tourist boat docked at a Chao Phraya river pier found a cache of ammunitions and
drug.
Piracy/Sea Robbery/Sea Theft
Bulk Carrier on 010120LT Jun 15. Five
perpetrators armed with knives boarded
08 Jun Attempted Sea Theft/ 2.43nm
with a rope ladder and tried to attack the
NE of Pu Karimun Kechil/ Indonesia
crew's watchmen. The alarm was raised
Details: IFC received information from
and the crew mustered. Upon hearing the
Port Operations Control Centre (POCC) of
alarm, the perpetrators fled with stolen
an attempted sea theft on board a Saudi
ships property.
Arabia Chemical /Products Tanker on
03 Jun - Timber Carrier KM Mutiara
080400H Jun 15. Master of vessel reported
Hijacked In Java Sea
three perpetrators had boarded vessel and
left after the ship's alarm was sounded.
Details: The Indonesian timber carrier KM
There was no reported injuries and nothing
Mutiara was hijacked by pirates in the Java
stolen.
Sea. The vessel was attacked by armed
men with fast boats off Palau Bangka
island and all the crew members were
Events reported outside of the period:
either thrown or jumped overboard. The
pirates took over the control of the timber
01 Jun - Sea Robbery/ 6nm SW of
carrier and changed its course Northerly.
Chittagong / Bangladesh
Details: IFC received information from
IMO that a sea theft incident had occurred
on board a Antigua & Barbuda flagged

Comments: Indonesia authority has not

received any report of this incident from
the company.

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Contraband Trafficking
06 June - Three Held, Petrol In
Canisters Seized / Sabah / Malaysia

01 June Attempt To Smuggle In Drugs

/ Cebu / Philippines

Details: Marine police have seized 21

canisters of petrol containing 30 litres each
worth RM1,950 from a pump boat in a
special operation at Nusa Kuya water.
They also detained three men aged
between 20 and 28.

Details: An alleged drug courier was

arrested in Cebu City's Pier 1 when he
attempted to smuggle P150,000 worth of
methamphetamine hydrochloride (shabu).

08 June - 8 Unexpected Animal Horn

Smugglers Arrested/ Bali/ Indonesia
Details: Denpasar Police and Port Security
Implementation arrested eight passenger
ship docked at the Port of Benoa for
allegedly smuggling. The ships were
carrying a carton of shells, eight pieces of
sharp weapons such as machetes and a
dagger, three pieces of sandalwood and
one goat horns and the antlers.
09 June - Navy Arrests Two Persons
With "Kerala Ganja" / Sri Lanka
Details: North Western Naval Command
with the assistance of Puttalam Police
arrested two persons with 5 kilograms of
cannabis (Kerala Ganja) in the general area
of Mangalaeliya in Puttalam.
Events reported outside of the period:
27 May Coast Guard, Navy Seize
Illegal Shipment / Puerto Princesa /
Phillipines
Details: Joint elements of Philippine Coast
Guard and Philippine Navy confiscated a
total of 14 sea turtles at the shoreline of
Green Island, Barangay Tumarbong in
Roxas, Palawan.
31 May 50,000 Yaba Tablets Seized /
Coxs Bazar/ Bangladesh
Details:
Bangladesh
Coast
Guard
recovered 50,000 Yaba tablets from
Boraitali area of Teknaf in Coxs Bazar.

03 June Attempt To Smuggle Crystal

Meth in CCTV Foiled/ Indonesia
Details: A joint operation conducted by
the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) and
the Customs and Excise Directorate
General has foiled an attempt to smuggle
into the country 2.17 kilograms of shabushabu (crystal methamphetamine) worth
Rp 2.82 billion hidden inside close circuit
television (CCTV) equipment.
03 June Men Arrested for Smuggled
Marijuana /Batam /Indonesia
Details: A male passenger of MV Kelud
arrested by the police units in the Port of
Tema Concrete Sekupang (PBS) for
carrying a suitcase containing 10
kilograms of marijuana.
04 June - Marine Police Seize
Contraband Cigarettes/ Semporna /
Malaysia
Details: The marine police detained a
foreigner in connection with the seizure of
146 cartons of contraband cigarettes in
Pulau Sibangkat. The contraband was
worth about RM28,780.
04 June - Indian Police Confiscate
130kg Ganja / India
Details: The Organised Crime Intelligence
Unit seized 130kg of ganja that were being
transported
to
Rameswaram
and
apprehended two persons, who were
carrying the contraband from Sri Lanka by
sea.

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05 June - Suspected Drug Courier

Arrested / Cebu Port/ Philippines

05 June - Marine Police Seized

Smuggled Oil /Dai Ngai/ Vietnam

Details: A suspected drug courier was

arrested past after he was caught carrying
about 100 grams of shabu while trying to
board a vessel for Ormoc City in Leyte at
Pier 1.

Details: Vietnam Coast Guard seized a

vessel carrying 700 tonnes of oil of unclear
origin from southern Soc Trang Province's
Dai Ngai marine area.

Recommendations
IFC Advises:
1.

All mariners to report any incidents timely to the nearest coastal state and IFC at the earliest possible time.

2.

Ships moving at slow speed or choosing to remain at anchor in areas where sea robbery/theft is regularly
reported to be vigilant and to adopt necessary security measures.

3.

All mariners to take note on the description of the perpetrators and to take photos of the perpetrators if
possible.

4.

Shippers and Seafarers operating in Sulu Sea and in vicinity of East Sabah Waters are strongly
recommended to be vigilant and to establish contact with both Malaysian and Philippines Authorities to
report their presence.

5.

Shippers are advised to take note that al-Qaeda, in its recently launched English language online magazine
Resurgence, has called for the disruption of global trade and shipping through acts of piracy, among other
tactics. Shippers are therefore advised to exercise vigilance and to adopt self-defensive measures as stated
in BMP4, especially when transiting narrow choke points and known sea robbery/piracy hot spots.
Note: Information herein was derived from various internal and external sources such as Focal
Points, OPCENs and other maritime stakeholders. Shippers should remain vigilant especially in
areas where the threat level is assessed to be above one in accordance with the IFC Spot Commentary
2/14 and IFC quarterly assessment report. Ships should apply the appropriate security measures
(such as BMP4 or Tugs and Barge Guide). Ship masters should also be aware and refer to the
Maritime Security Charts Q6112 and Q6113, both published by the UK Hydrographic Office.

CONTACT
In case of any doubt, incident at sea, suspicious approach or unusual observed activity at sea,
please contact IFC: IFC Duty Officer:
Email :
IFC_DO@defence.gov.sg or ifc_do@infofusioncentre.gov.sg
Tel :
+65 9626 8965 (Mobile)
+65 6594 5728 (Office)
Fax :
+65 6594 5734
The IFC seeks your observations in the course of your normal business. The IFC would like
to remind mariners to be mindful of national and international laws, company and other
policy requirements and also health and safety obligations, whilst recording these
observations. The reporting of such events to IFC does not absolve you of your obligations
towards coastal/ port/ flag authorities.

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