one more Pirates hijack ...... seriusly if no mmea/navy ship frequenly park there, this will keep happend, no one inform MMEA ? mmea only get report at 6.30am.
Pirates hijack M’sian oil tanker

PETALING JAYA: A Malaysian-flagged oil tanker was hijacked off the east coast.

An International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) report said armed men boarded the ship at a spot 14km southwest of Pulau Aur near Mersing on Thurs­day.

“They took all crew members as hostages, altered the ship’s course and transferred the oil,” the Commercial Crime Services report said.

Before leaving, the pirates stole items belonging to the ship and its crew, and damaged its radios. The ship later sailed to a safe port.

A Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) official confirmed the hijacking and identified the ship as the Orkim Victory.

“The ship safely arrived in Kuantan at 7pm Thursday,” MMEA C3i (Command, Con­trol, Communication and Information) director Capt Hamid Mohd Amin told The Star.

Hamid said the ship’s 18 crew members were safe and that the pirates fled to Pulau Matek in the Anambas Islands region in Indo­nesia and that the Indonesian Coast Guard were told of the hijacking. He added that MMEA was investigating the case.

Maritime news portal IHS Maritime 360 said the ship was sailing from Sungai Udang in Malacca to Kuantan before the hijacking.

According to an April 21 ICC report, more than half of piracy and armed robbery incidents between January and March took place in Asean waters.

An ICC piracy and armed robbery map showed that three other incidents, including two hijackings, took place in waters off Mersing’s coast this year.

MMEA’s southern region public relation officer Lt Mohd Sufian Anuar said the agency had been deploying more of it assets to beef up patrols.

He said hijacking cases in the state increased by 25% to 30% over the past three years.

“We had about six hijack cases in 2013, 10 were recorded in 2014 and two cases this year, most of which involved oil tankers,” he said.

Lt Mohd Sufian said that the agency had been increasing patrols especially around the borders of Thailand and Indonesia.

“We are using more assets to increase patrols especially at hotspots for hijackings, including Pengerang in Kota Tinggi and Pulau Aur in Mersing.

“We also launched an operation early this year, which led to the arrest of a group of pirates who had tried to hijack a vessel carrying 700 tonnes of marine fuel oil in January.”
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Government Will Go All Out To Locate Missing Oil Tanker - Najib

KUALA LUMPUR, June 14 (Bernama) -- Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said the government will go all out to locate the oil tanker which went missing with 22 crew 30 nautical miles east of Tanjung Sedili, Kota Tinggi, Johor on Thursday.

Najib said he was distressed by the news and prayed for the safety of all crew on board.

"I am distressed by the news of a missing Malaysian-owned tanker. I pray for the safety of the 22-strong crew, 16 of whom are Malaysians.

"My thoughts are with their families. The government will deploy our resources to locate it," he said in his latest post on his Twitter and Facebook sites Sunday.

The Malaysian-registered vessel MT Orkim Harmony with 6,000 metric tonnes of RON95 petrol was sailing from Malacca to Kuantan when it went missing last Thursday.

Besides the 16 Malaysians, five Indonesians and a Myanmar national were also on board the tanker.

Search operations are ongoing with the Royal Malaysian Navy deploying three vessels with 150 personnel while the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency deployed a helicopter, three ships and a boat.

-- BERNAMA