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Indonesian, Malaysian Navies Rescue Hijacked Tanker, Barge
October 30, 2011

Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency officers standing guard over Indonesian pirates after arresting them off the waters near the Malaysia’s southern state of Johor in March this year. (Reuters Photo) Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency officers standing guard over Indonesian pirates after arresting them off the waters near the Malaysia’s southern state of Johor in March this year. (Reuters Photo)
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DrDez
9:55am Oct 31, 2011

Jusdogin

With his reduction it is actually more than Bashir got. Plus he will no doubt get time off at Islamic holidays

It is a joke of a justice system when mob violence or the threat of dictates a sentence... One wonders if and when we will see mobs demanding sentences for those like Naz who allegedly rape our nations wealth

jusdogin
7:20am Oct 31, 2011

ten years and a caning... thats less that Bashir got

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Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia maritime authorities have rescued a tanker and a barge which were hijacked in the latest South China Sea pirate attacks, officials said on Sunday.

A tanker carrying oil and gas worth $4.6 million was hijacked Thursday in the Straits of Singapore, said Syed Mohamad Fuzi Syed Hasan, a regional operations director with the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency.

Authorities located the Malaysian-registered MT Nautica Johor Bahru off the country’s east coast Friday after an alert from the shipping company that the vessel was no longer contactable.

Navy ships from Malaysia and Indonesia managed to intercept the vessel in Indonesian waters though the pirates, about 10 men armed with a pistol and machetes, got away in a speedboat, Syed Mohamad Fuzi said.

None of the 19 crew members was injured but their belongings were stolen. The tanker was on its way from peninsular Malaysia to Borneo island, he said.

Meanwhile, authorities also rescued a barge with two crew and palm oil worth eight million ringgit on board Thursday off southern Malaysia, said maritime enforcement agency regional commander Zulkifli Abu Bakar.

The barge was hijacked from a fishing boat in Indonesian waters Wednesday while traveling from Borneo to peninsular Malaysia, he said. The six armed pirates had left the barge, presumably to get another tug boat.

Noel Choong, head of the International Maritime Bureau’s piracy reporting center, called on authorities and ships to be vigilant.

“We hope it’s not going to be a start again [of more such attacks]. The authorities have to clamp down on these fast,” he told AFP. “In this region ships should maintain a strict anti--piracy watch.”

In June, the centre issued a warning for ships traversing the South China Sea bordering Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore following a sudden spur in attacks.

A Malaysian court last month sentenced six Indonesians to 10 years in jail and caning for trying to rob a merchant ship in September off its southern coast near Singapore.

Agence France-Presse