Maritime security centre · Malaysia

ICC International Maritime Bureau Piracy Reporting Centre

Recorded as: IMB PIRACY REPORTING CENTER

The IMB's reporting centre in Kuala Lumpur, which receives and broadcasts reports of piracy and armed robbery against ships worldwide.

Maritime security centres collect and relay reports of piracy, armed robbery, suspicious approaches and other threats to merchant ships, and advise them on precautions.

What the archive holds

476 messages in this archive record IMB PIRACY REPORTING CENTER as their authority, issued from 2010-09-07 to 2024-05-10. None of them is in force in the latest lists we collected.

Piracy accounts for 437 of 476 recorded messages (92%), the largest warning type group in this selection.

Attributed to NAVAREAs, they fall mostly in NAVAREA IV (3) and NAVAREA III (1).

Located messages lie in 22 sea areas, most often Gulf of Guinea, Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean.

The largest yearly count is 2017, with 69 messages. Collection is incomplete between 2024-05 and 2026-08-17, so those years are not comparable.

Across all years its messages are issued most often in November and least often in August.

They reached this archive through HYDROPAC (316), HYDROLANT (157) and NAVAREA IV (3).

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Warning types

Where

NAVAREA IV 3 · NAVAREA III 1

Most recently issued

  1. HYDROPAC 1563/24 · Piracy · Gulf of Aden2024-05-10
    M/V attacked in 12-38.65N 048-24.06E at 100457Z may
  2. HYDROPAC 1214/24 · Piracy · Makassar Strait2024-04-14
    Vessel at anchor boarded and robbed by four pirates in 01-17.98S 116-47.93E at 122125Z apr
  3. HYDROPAC 933/24 · Piracy · Arabian Sea2024-03-21
    M/V approached by pirates in 14-20.00N 054-44.00E at 200200Z mar
  4. HYDROPAC 932/24 · Piracy · Arabian Sea2024-03-21
    M/V attacked in 14-28.00N 053-29.00E at 210811Z mar
  5. HYDROPAC 896/24 · Other2024-03-18
    Cancel HYDROPAC 883/24 and this msg
  6. HYDROPAC 883/24 · Piracy · Indian Ocean2024-03-16
    M/V ruen hijacked in 06-40.58N 052-09.19E at 160941Z mar
  7. HYDROPAC 862/24 · Piracy · Indian Ocean2024-03-14
    M/V ruen hijacked in 06-40.00N 052-11.00E at 141515Z mar
  8. HYDROPAC 823/24 · Piracy · Indian Ocean2024-03-12
    M/V attacked in 01-27.00N 054-53.00E at 120853Z mar

Earliest in the archive

  1. HYDROPAC 1809/10 · Piracy · Gulf of Aden2010-09-07
    M/V attacked in 13-32.0N 049-39.7E at 060702Z sep

Other maritime security centres in NAVAREA IV

Counts are messages recording this issuer as their authority, recounted 2026-09-24; see coverage for what is collected. Not for navigation.