A report from the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) shows five ships were hijacked in southeast Asia, while the total number of tankers attacked globally was 13.
June featured attacks on two Orkim Ship Management-controlled vessels off Malaysia and an almost simultaneous incident involving raids on three ships off Singapore.
On a global basis, the report from ICC shows a total of 134 incidents of piracy and armed robbery in the first six months of the year, against 116 in the same stretch of 2014.
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