• A total of five incidents of armed robbery against ships were reported in Asia in February 2018
  • No piracy incident was reported
  • Of the five incidents, three were actual incidents and two were attempted incidents
  • Of the two attempted incidents, one was an attempted incident involving the abduction of crew from a container ship at approximately 4.4 nm southwest of Sibago Island, province of Basilan, Philippines
  • There is no actual incident of abduction of crew and no incident of hijacking of ship for theft of oil cargo reported in February 2018
  • Compared to January 2018, the situation in February 2018 has improved – a total of eight incidents were reported in January 2018 compared to five incidents in February 2018