IN February 2021, three incidents of armed robbery against ships were reported in Asia by ReCAAP Information Sharing Centre. No piracy incident was reported.

ReCAAP ISC is concerned with the continued occurrence of incidents on board ships while underway in the Singapore Strait. In February 2021, two incidents were reported in the eastbound lane of the Traffic Separation Scheme in the Singapore Strait.

There was no report of abduction of crew in the Sulu-Celebes Seas and waters off Eastern Sabah in February 2021. However, the risk of the abduction of crew remains high as demonstrated by the abduction of crew incident on 17 January 2020 (with four crew still held in captivity), information of planned kidnapping, and the operation on 3 November 2020 by the Philippines authorities in preventing a kidnap-for-ransom incident.

The third incident occurred on board a ship while berthed at Jakarta Port, Indonesia.