QUOTE(DDG_Ross @ Aug 29 2014, 06:49 PM)
Indon pirates struck and hijack a tanker off batam island yesterday, that's 11 incident this month on indonesian waters.. not counting those happens at the border of msia and sgpore
I know tni-al is boasting about their new navy ships, but cant they do something about this??
Honestly, from a sailor
QUOTE(junchuan @ Aug 30 2014, 12:30 AM)
not sure if this has been posted
Armed pirates commandeered a Thai tanker off Malaysia's east coast and pumped out its cargo of oil, a maritime watchdog said on Friday (Aug 29), adding to a series of hijackings that has raised fears of a growing Southeast Asian piracy menace.KUALA LUMPUR: Armed pirates commandeered a Thai tanker off Malaysia's east coast and pumped out its cargo of oil, a maritime watchdog said on Friday (Aug 29), adding to a series of hijackings that has raised fears of a growing Southeast Asian piracy menace.
The incident took place on Thursday near the Malaysian resort island Tioman in the South China Sea as the tanker was travelling from Singapore to Thailand, the International Maritime Bureau's Piracy Reporting Centre said. The ship's crew were locked in the engine room as the pirates siphoned off the tanker's cargo of lubricant oil to another vessel, it said. The ship and its crew - all unharmed - were released early Friday.
Under a routine practice, the Kuala Lumpur-based piracy centre declined to release the name of the ship or its owners. The attack was the tenth in the South China Sea since April, said Noel Choong, who heads the centre.
He called that number "abnormal". "We urge regional countries to cooperate to investigate and stop this menace," he told AFP. "We need to stop it before it starts spreading." Piracy was a problem in Southeast Sea for centuries, but stepped-up patrols by regional countries were credited with bringing a sharp decline in attacks in recent years.
But a spate of daring hijackings in recent months - usually targeting tanker cargoes - has fanned concern that the region's vital shipping lanes could once again become a hotspot for piracy, particularly the Malacca Strait. About one-third of global trade flows through the strategic channel, which runs between Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore.
- AFP/nd
sos
seems like we're no better than indonsĀ

This is the incident that I'm talking about, happens off 4km north of batam islands, in indonesian territory.
Tanker carrying load of diesel fuel hijacked, brought close by the pirates to somewhere near the natuna island which is east of tioman before releasing the ship.
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Edited out the ship name, supposed to inside info only
This post has been edited by DDG_Ross: Aug 30 2014, 12:57 AM