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PANO - SETTSU, a patrol vessel of the Japan Coast Guard (JCG), arrived in Da Nang on February 13, starting its visit to the Central city of Vietnam and exchange with the Coast Guard Region 2 Command.
CNA – The number of armed robbery incidents aboard ships in the Singapore Strait rose in 2022, with the strait now accounting for 65 per cent of the total number of incidents in Asia. Fifty-five such incidents were reported in the Singapore Strait last year, up from the 49 in 2021, according to the annual […]
PANO - In the framework of the “Vietnam Coast Guard and friends” exchange program, the Vietnam Coast Guard and the Thai Maritime Enforcement Command Center (Thai-MECC) had a meeting on December 8, in Hanoi.
Piracy is a growing threat to global commerce and is becoming a U.S. security issue. While anti-piracy efforts have successfully reduced piracy in the Malacca Strait, Somali pirates have expanded their operations further into the Indian Ocean. Ending the threat from Somali pirates will require shifting from a defensive posture of trying to protect ships passing through the high-risk zones—there are too many ships, too few military vessels, and too many pirates—to an offensive strategy of attacking the pirates at their weak points. The United States and other countries should use every mean...
ReCAAP, the Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery Against Ships in Asia, is again highlighting an increase in sea robbe...