Overview

• ReCAAP’s mid-year survey recorded 95 piracy and armed robbery incidents in Asia for the first half of 2025, up from 52 in the same period of 2024.
• Eighty of those attacks occurred in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore, compared with 21 in the first half of 2024.
• Ninety percent of incidents took place after dark, with no crew injuries in nine out of ten cases and no items stolen in half of all attacks.
• Attackers chiefly boarded slow-moving, low-freeboard vessels in restricted waters and took engine spares in 29% of incidents.
• In its July 10 briefing, ReCAAP urged regional authorities to expand patrols and called on shipmasters to tighten night watchkeeping and install deterrent measures.