SINGAPORE, April 14 — The authorities are still working to resolve the boarding of a Singapore-registered tanker by “unidentified persons” off Ivory Coast in western Africa...
SINGAPORE, April 14 — The authorities are still working to resolve the boarding of a Singapore-registered tanker by “unidentified persons” off Ivory Coast in western Africa on Monday with one Singaporean among the 20 crew members.
“The Ivory Coast authorities have deployed their air and sea assets to the vicinity of the last known position of the vessel,” MPA added. Findings from the annual piracy report by the International Chamber of Commerce’s International Maritime Bureau showed that 135 crew members were kidnapped from their vessels in 2020, with the Gulf of Guinea accounting for more than 95 per cent of crew members kidnapped.
This decline was attributed to the concerted efforts of national authorities — with the support of regional and international partners — the regular deployment of naval assets by international partners, and piracy convictions in Nigeria and Togo in 2021, among other factors. However, he added that “ostensibly, Singapore would be interested to do so, and it would be reasonable to expect that Singapore would co-operate with the coastal state in these efforts”.
“Unclos provides that all states have a duty to cooperate in the repression of piracy. This gives them the right to seize pirate ships and arrest the pirates.”
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