Malacca Straits Concepts

Dangerous Waters: Modern Piracy and Terror on the High Seas

by John S. Burnett · 1 Jan 2002 · 399pp · 120,226 words

determined to take over a ship. Pirates have attacked vessels on all these waterways—not something that is well known outside the maritime community. The Malacca Straits, on the east side of the Indian Ocean, is one of those corridors. This five-hundred-mile passage is the commercial umbilical connecting Europe,

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our path. Our course takes us around the bottom end of Sri Lanka, then nearly due east toward northern Sumatra and then southward down the Malacca Straits. The entire passage from Muscat to the Singapore area should take nine days. The ship is remarkably quiet under way. The only sound of

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THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT, AND SOUTH EAST ASIAN WATERS REGARDING PIRACY AND ARMED ROBBERY AGAINST SHIPS. WARNINGS INCREASING NUMBER OF ATTACKS HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN THE MALACCA STRAITS BETWEEN THE COORDINATES 01 TO 02N-101 TO 103E. THE MOST RISK-PRONE AREA IS WITHIN 25 NM RADIUS SURROUNDING 02N-102E, WHERE THE SAME

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ARMED GANG OF PIRATES SEEMS TO HAVE REPEATEDLY ATTACKED SHIPS. SHIPS ARE ADVISED TO AVOID ANCHORING ALONG THE INDONESIAN COAST OF THE MALACCA STRAITS UNLESS REQUIRED FOR URGENT OPERATIONAL REASONS. THE COAST NEAR ACEH IS PARTICULARLY RISKY. PIRATES RECENTLY BOARDED TWO VESSELS AND KIDNAPPED THE CREW FOR RANSOM. SHIPS

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FIRE AND SHOT FOUR TIMES AT A CONTAINER SHIP AND TRIED TO BOARD HER. BOARDING WAS AVERTED. IN POSITION 01:56.5N-102:19.0E, MALACCA STRAITS. WHILE UNDERWAY, ABOUT 20 ARMED PIRATES BOARDED A BULK CARRIER AND TOOK HOSTAGE ALL CREWMEMBERS AND ROBBED THEIR VALUABLES AND CASH. IN POSITION 01:40N

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same place where the wretches boarded my boat. One attack in this sitrep occurred directly on our route—in the deep water channel in the Malacca Straits. At least we had been warned. One tanker pirated in these waters never had the benefit of such alerts. 3 A Dangerous Space When

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the ship responded with the agility of a pregnant elephant in a mudhole. Motoring out into the busy Phillip Channel at the bottom of the Malacca Straits was one of the most demanding tasks of the entire voyage. Captain Monteiro had to maneuver 30,000 tons of explosive fuel through heavy crossing

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The pirates who took down the Valiant Carrier were never caught. Indeed, it is highly likely that they continued to attack other ships in the Malacca Straits and South China Sea and possibly are still doing so today. Donny had described his assailants as best he could remember. I wanted to know

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on the east side of Dondra Head, the southernmost tip of Sri Lanka; another three days and we will enter the northern entrance to the Malacca Straits. The captain bends over the chart table and checks our latest position—there is little that demands his immediate attention up here. A captain

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captain explains that it is not serious, that the flange was spurting oil and that the chief engineer wanted it replaced before we reached the Malacca Straits. It is in the Straits that two generators, two radar, and everything else must be fully operational. A VLCC can not afford to have

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His advocacy was proven well founded when, months later, the system was instrumental in the dramatic retrieval of Petchem’s sister ship hijacked in the Malacca Straits. Equipping the vessel with the tracking device is a two-edged sword, and management is not sure how to respond. On the one hand they

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and report anything behaving suspiciously around the vessel. These are steps that the company assumes are adequate, that if a VLCC is attacked in the Malacca Straits it won’t belong to The Group. “We don’t need that wakeup call,” says Bill McKnight in the London office. Bill is the

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his ship. Now, I think, he is not so sure. Captain Postma will double the watch, have both radars switched on, required for the Malacca Straits anyway, and prepare a distress message to send (according to company requirements) in case of boarding. “How is anyone going to send a distress message

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here to there, and some of the shipments necessarily have passed through narrow, constricted waterways—known pirate areas. One route takes the ships through the Malacca Straits and the South China Sea, some of the world’s most dangerous waters, an area in which the Abu Sayaf, self-professed Filipino Islamic extremists

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coast; they weren’t going for the strongbox in the captain’s cabin but the crew’s laundry in the washing machines.) In the Malacca Straits and South China Sea the sharp increase in piracy coincided with the Asian economic crisis in the late nineties, which saw the precipitous fall in

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up. This area is notorious for its sudden and unpredictable conditions. The Admiralty Chart of the Mariner’s Routing Guide of the Malacca Straits warns: The most significant squalls in the Malacca Straits are those known as “Sumatras,” which occur from April to November. These storms nearly always develop during the night, chiefly between

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captain seems eager to contribute something else—a risibly plausible tale: a mannequin that the crew had forgotten to remove after they had left the Malacca Straits was still standing guard when the ship returned to Dubai. A supply vessel pulled up to the Montrose, and the ship’s agent aboard

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The tank had been filled with Persian Gulf crude oil. The collision occurred at night on September 19, 1992, at the northern entrance of the Malacca Straits about thirty miles off the coast of Sumatra, the spot that we are now passing. The conditions were good at the time: good visibility, flat

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can’t forget is the menace to the environment. There have been cases where pirates boarded large merchant ships like in the middle of the Malacca Straits, and held the crew captive while the ship was steaming full speed [out of command] down the busy channel for eighteen to twenty minutes

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of wars against the Abu Sayaf and the Moro Liberation Front in the Philippines and against gangs of Indonesian pirates and smugglers here in the Malacca Straits, he has been shot at and wounded during bloody battles at sea that make the fanciful tales of cutlass-swinging brigands of yesteryear pale

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“unionize” with other gangs along the coast, that they will syndicate, form an alliance of hit squads with bases from top to bottom of the Malacca Straits along the Indonesian coast. Syndicates, Muda says, mean organization and outside foreign money. Syndicates mean a different modus operandi; instead of wielding homemade long knives

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counterparts, were helmeted and armed with assault rifles, and wore government-issue black uniforms and bulletproof vests; they were using a craft typical of the Malacca Straits pirates, a low-slung speedboat powered by two big outboards. The Malaysian and Indonesian SWAT teams, commandos trained to kill, stood facing each other,

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can do to capture the pirate gangs. There is a strict but disputed boundary between Indonesia and Malaysia. The twelve-mile territorial limit cuts the Malacca Straits in half and where it is wider than twenty-four miles, the conflicting Exclusive Economic Zone reaching out two hundred miles from all the world

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me here. Within one inch of my balls. I was lucky.” The Malaysian government brought him back across the South China Sea to the Malacca Straits, where it was hoped that his no-nonsense approach to terrorists and pirates—interchangeable terms, according to those on the line—will help put an

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presence. At least temporarily. In November 2001 Japan sent a small fleet of warships from the Sasebo Naval Base into the Indian Ocean through the Malacca Straits to support the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan. It was the first such foray through the region since the Second World War. The

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military that uses modern weapons instead of long knives. It will be an escalation neither the Malaysian police nor the international community can afford. The Malacca Straits are about to become far more dangerous.41 Jamal believes that this new regional alliance, the “unionizing” they so feared, eventually will become part

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Japan’s commerce with Europe and the Middle East. But reliable nav aids don’t guarantee security; during the past five years piracy in the Malacca Straits has cost Japanese industry close to $24 million. The Straits here are crowded with fishing boats, Prahaus and sampans, coastal freighters and barges. The

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Emirates and had just completed training the Singapore marine police in the latest antiterrorism, antipiracy techniques. With attacks by pirates and hostage-taking increasing in Malacca Straits, Singapore was concerned that terrorists and pirates would one day take over one of the many cruise ships, passenger ferries, and VLCCs that operate out

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in Malaysia.42 Four loosely connected multinational crime organizations control four areas: The Singapore syndicate controls the southern part of the South China Sea and Malacca Straits; Bangkok controls the Andaman Sea, bordered by Thailand, Burma, and Malaysia; triads in Hong Kong control the northern part of the South China Sea;

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Japanese-owned vessel was carrying three thousand tons of aluminum ingot when it was hijacked by professional Indonesian pirates armed with machine guns in the Malacca Straits on September 27, 1998. The sixteen hijackers were arrested by the Chinese when it entered their waters. To the amazement of many in the

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local kingpin for a crime syndicate based in Hong Kong, and Fujian Province, China. He arranged the hijacking of twenty-two vessels in the Malacca Straits and South China Sea. He ran his hijack operations just across the Straits at Batam Island aboard the M/T Pulau Mas, mother ship for

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Ranger, and past the spot where she was hijacked. 17 Into the Dead Zone Petro Concord, South China Sea If a voyage down the Malacca Straits on the Montrose was an exercise in caution and awareness, then a passage across the murderous waters of the South China Sea on a smaller

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of the International Collision Regulations, which states a vessel shall keep clear of another “restricted in her ability to maneuver.” This would work in the Malacca Straits, but it is a little weak out here; the ship had us in its sights fifteen miles away, and with miles of unlimited sea

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as these the fully laden VLCC Maersk Navigator, carrying crude to Japan, collided with the bulk carrier Sanko Honour at the northern entrance of the Malacca Straits. It spilled nearly eight million gallons of oil, about the same amount released by the Exxon Valdez—the two ships were well out to

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through the heart of political and religious unrest. Growing religious polarization in the secular but predominantly Islamic nations of Indonesia and Malaysia, through which the Malacca Straits funnel, is a serious concern. A mujahideen network, trained in Afghanistan and well established in Southeast Asia, feeds upon the discontent of the huge,

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an overall strategy, the Free Aceh Movement (Gerakin Aceh Merdeka—GAM), the Islamic fundamentalist group in Indonesia’s province on Sumatra, warned vessels transiting the Malacca Straits they would have to seek permission to pass. It was this extremist organization often linked to Al-Qaeda that forced Exxon-Mobil Corporation to shut

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at best, and the paper chase is often futile. If organized crime can successfully disguise a ship stolen in the South China Sea or the Malacca Straits with false registration, false name, new home port, flag, and crew, so too can terrorists. Maritime authorities have never had much luck in identifying

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same efficiency and with far more disastrous consequences than the attack on the Limburg or the Cole. And were this attack to occur in the Malacca Straits, the Suez Canal, or in the vicinity of a petrochemical complex in a crowded urban area, the results would be catastrophic. The Jemaah Islamiyah,

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rather chilling account that sums up the current conditions at sea was transmitted to all ships: 24.11.2002 AT 1300LT: WEST OF KENDI ISLAND, MALACCA STRAITS. PIRATES BOARDED A MOTORIZED CRAFT UNDERWAY, TOOK HOSTAGE THE MASTER AND CONFISCATED ALL DOCUMENTS. PIRATES DAMAGED THE ENGINE AND SET THE CRAFT ADRIFT WITH ITS

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reports that were revised indicate that the bridge remained secure and under control of the watch stander. 32 There are two alternative routes, were the Malacca Straits closed. The Sunda Straits around the southern end of Sumatra into the Java Sea past the smoldering Anak Krakatao volcano are rent by strong currents

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Chapter 11 34 There are 2 million illegal immigrants in Malaysia of a population of 23 million. Most of these have been spirited across the Malacca Straits from Indonesia during the past ten years. There is no other practical way to get into Malaysia except through Thailand and that is rarely done

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territorial sea of its own State or of a third State. 37 The Royal Malaysian Marine Police have been effective on their side of the Malacca Straits. In 2000 there were seventy-five reported attacks in the area. In 2001 the figure dropped to seventeen. There was no noticeable decline on

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Australian, and Israeli embassies. 39 The Americans did show up. Briefly. In October and November 2001, U.S. Navy frigates escorted merchant ships through the Malacca Straits that carried “cargoes of high importance or value” to the war effort in Afghanistan. Admiral Dennis Cutler Blair, commander of the U.S. forces in

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armed extremists linked to Al-Qaeda who use Southeast Asia as a base. The number of attacks during these months in Indonesian waters of the Malacca Straits did not decrease. 40 Captain P. Mukundan, Director, International Maritime Bureau, agrees: “The Japanese would go right in. They’d just do it” without

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. On October 22, 1999, pirates armed with swords and guns attacked the Alondra Rainbow only hours after it departed Kuala Tanjung, Sumatra, on the Malacca Straits. The crew was set adrift in a life raft and found ten days later by a passing fishing boat. The captain on a tanker who

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Mangalore, India Mangouras, Apostolos Mannas, Samsher Manning policies Marine Accident Investigation Board Marine Corps Hymn Marine Medical Center, Singapore Mariner’s Routing Guide of the Malacca Straits Maritime & Underwater Security Consultants Maritime Transportation AntiTerrorism Act of 2002 Masefield, John Mathur, Karun Matthew Maynard, Robert McKnight, Bill Mediterranean Sea Megaports Mekong Delta

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Vanisha Monteiro, Vimala Montrose anchor antipiracy precautions bridge cash on board cost design draft end of journey engine room helicopter landing pads inspection below in Malacca Straits officers and crew at Pulau Karimun registry role of captain rolls security audit ship’s particulars size of speed vibration weight fully loaded Moro Liberation

The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans

by David Abulafia · 2 Oct 2019 · 1,993pp · 478,072 words

in current use: Melaka rather than Malacca , recognizing that the city originated a hundred years before the Portuguese conquest (but one still talks of the ‘Malacca Strait’); Macau rather than Macao . I have alternated between New Zealand and the lovely Māori name Aotearoa (‘Long White Cloud’). Guangzhou became known to westerners as

The Future Is Asian

by Parag Khanna · 5 Feb 2019 · 496pp · 131,938 words

China. Tang Dynasty merchant ships reflected this diversity, with crews made up of Christians, Parsis, Muslims, and Jews. Tang vessels crossed the Java Sea and Malacca Strait carrying tens of thousands of fine porcelain bowls and other items to be exchanged for Indian fabrics and Abbasid glassware. At the time, the Tang

Love Over Scotland

by Alexander McCall Smith · 31 Dec 2005 · 438pp · 124,269 words

Robinson 44 Scotland Street: The Story So Far At the end of the second series of 44 Scotland Street we saw Domenica leaving for the Malacca Straits for the purposes of anthropological research. We saw Bruce safely departed for London. Now Pat is about to start her course in history of art

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they talked about nothing, because to talk was uncool. Perhaps Domenica could do field work outside the McEwan Hall – once she had finished with her Malacca Straits pirates – living with the skateboarders, in a little tent in the rhododendrons at the edge of the square, observing the socio-dynamics of the group

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. But then he reminded himself: Domenica is not dead, and I must not think of her in that way. She has simply gone to the Malacca Straits, and that is not the same thing as being dead. And yet he wondered how long it would be before he saw her again. She

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his jacket. He would place those in one of the large envelopes left him by Domenica and send them off to the address in the Malacca Straits. He was not sure whether her mail would ever reach her – the address she had given him seemed somewhat unlikely – but his duty was done

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’s not use the past tense when speaking of her,” said Antonia cheerfully. “She’s not exactly dead yet, is she? She’s in the Malacca Straits. That, I would have thought, amounts to being amongst the quick.” “Of course,” said Angus hurriedly, but added: “That does seem a long way away

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why I’m here.” Ling looked thoughtful. “Well, I suppose that you have come to the right place. There certainly are pirates operating in the Malacca Straits. It’s quite dangerous for shipping these days.” Edward Hong had been studying Ling with care. Now he interrupted. “Tell me, young man,” he asked

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otiose by the imminent appearance, in one of the prestigious journals, perhaps Mankind Quarterly, of an extensive Belgian study of a pirate community on the Malacca Straits. It would be bitterly disappointing. And what would they think of her when she returned to Edinburgh after only a few weeks and announced that

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Drummond Place. This situation had come about as a result of an undertaking he had rashly given to Domenica shortly before her departure for the Malacca Straits. She had asked him to give her an assurance that he would invite to his flat Antonia Collie, her friend who was occupying her flat

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a place called the Moulin Rouge, Bertie? You heard of it?” 75. Scotland’s Woes Antonia Collie, Domenica’s tenant during her absence in the Malacca Straits, was uncertain what to do about Angus Lordie. The artist had invited her to dinner a few weeks previously and then, with very little notice

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may not have received the letter from Angus Lordie, but she had enough to think about anyway. Her life in the pirate village on the Malacca Straits was becoming busier – and more intriguing – after a somewhat disappointing start. She had at last done something about Ling, the interpreter who had proved to

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within yards. But then there were currents to be taken into account, and they might, in reality, be miles out by now, out in the Malacca Straits and directly in the course of some great behemoth of a Taiwanese tanker. That would be a sad way to go; crushed beneath the bows

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her shopping bag. This was wonderful. She had a great deal to tell Domenica when she came back. Why did she bother going to the Malacca Straits when all this was going on downstairs? Anthropology, she thought, like charity, surely begins at home. 109. In the Ossian Chair Antonia entered Domenica’s

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, because she had half-expected Domenica not to return. And a simpler “Hallo” would clearly be inadequate to mark return after several months in the Malacca Straits. And of course she could not say: “You’ve caught the sun”, because that would be on the same level of triteness as the late

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cup of coffee, said: “Now, what about the pirates?” She spoke hesitantly, as it was she who had urged Domenica to go out to the Malacca Straits in the first place and she felt a certain responsibility for the expedition. It was, in fact, a matter of great relief to her that

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that she would soon adjust, but for a few days everything seemed disjointed and not quite right. The very air, warm and languid on the Malacca Straits, was brisk and fresh here – almost brittle, in fact. And there was also the hardness of everything about her: this was a world of stone

Super Continent: The Logic of Eurasian Integration

by Kent E. Calder · 28 Apr 2019

Thailand and the western Malay Peninsula. Such a route could create an overland alternative to the vulnerable sea lines of communication (SLOCs) running through the Malacca Strait, although it does face periodic political challenges, such as the 2018 ambivalence of Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad. Compared to other ambitious projects connecting China

Deep Sea and Foreign Going

by Rose George · 4 Sep 2013 · 402pp · 98,760 words

and shiny. Flat grey sea. My mood is low and not shifted by running. I must be in pre-departure mourning. We are in the Malacca Straits now, which Chief Engineer Derek calls the M4 of shipping. I call them my final stretch, to be reluctantly travelled. The straits are 500 miles

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, sea and intelligence. Attacks dropped from 75 in 2000 to 10 in 2005. By 2006, the Joint War Committee of Lloyd’s had removed the Malacca Straits from its Hull, War, Strikes, Terrorism and Related Perils Listed Areas. Pirate experts desperate to solve the Somalia situation look at the

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Malacca Straits for answers, but there is no like to compare with like. There is nowhere as disintegrated as Somalia, spitting out its youngsters to the sea.

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’s nothing to it. The drama lasts an hour or two and then the schedule changes again. Singapore it is. At their narrowest point, the Malacca Straits are 1.7 miles wide. This is the oil highway from the Gulf to the East, and each year 60,000 ships must pass through

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: we are near the spot where Kendal ran aground under the control of a previous captain who decided that going at 21 knots in the Malacca Straits was a good idea. It was as good an idea as driving at 100 miles an hour around a bowling green in a truck. Derek

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, 1 economic consequences, 1 economic model, 1 EU-NAVFOR counter-piracy operations, 1, 2 fishermen mistaken for pirates, 1, 2 in history, 1, 2 in Malacca Straits, 1 myths about Somali pirates, 1 nationalities, 1 negotiations, 1, 2 planning and targeting, 1 ransoms, 1, 2 statistics, 1, 2 and torture, 1 ‘tripwires

Belt and Road: A Chinese World Order

by Bruno Maçães · 1 Feb 2019 · 281pp · 69,107 words

be used to develop new trade and energy routes along historically disadvantaged regions, thereby reducing China’s vulnerability to an American naval blockade of the Malacca strait in case of conflict. In 2016 80 per cent of China’s imported oil passed through the Indian Ocean and

Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History

by Lewis Dartnell · 13 May 2019 · 424pp · 108,768 words

to the East Indies–the Brouwer Route which we’ll discuss in Chapter 8–the key gateway, and thus their strategic focus, shifted from the Malacca Strait to the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra. ¶ The island nation of Japan also underwent over two centuries of isolationism from the 1630s. During the

Slow Boats to China

by Gavin Young · 24 Feb 1983 · 586pp · 184,480 words

belonged to Messageries Maritimes, and had plied between Dunkerque, Le Havre and the Canaries. Since her maiden crossing of the Bay of Bengal and the Malacca Strait in 1973, she had carried hundreds of holidaying Malay and Indian students, workers and businessmen back and forth with stabilized aplomb. There had been a

The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World

by Daniel Yergin · 14 May 2011 · 1,373pp · 300,577 words

a Communist Party conference that the country had to solve what became known as the Malacca Dilemma. This referred to China’s reliance on the Malacca Strait, the narrow waterway connecting the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea and through which passes more than 75 percent of China’s oil imports