News / The war on piracy may be being won, but marine crime in SE Asia is on the increase

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While piracy in some of the world’s most notorious areas has been on the decline, the densely populated waters of the Malacca and Singapore Straits have seen a “sharp rise” in attacks on commercial vessels, according to research released today.

Intelligence firm Dryad Maritime recorded 194 attacks on vessels in the first nine months of the year in South-east Asia, up 38% on the same period in 2014, as criminal gangs escalated instances of “petty theft of ships stores, mainly engine ...