Itsays the trend of boarding and hijacking of product tankers and fuel barges hasre-emerged over the last six months.
TheUK-based maritime intelligence provider makes the claims in its latest report: ‘Specialadvisory Southeast Asia. Disorganised theft to organised crime.’
“Analysisof these incidents has shown that the hijack of merchant vessels does notfollow the same pattern as seen in the Horn of Africa where vessels and creware taken to be ransomed back to their original owners,” says Dryad Maritime.
Itsays