Crewmember Requires Medical Evacuation in Latest Singapore Strait Incident

Authorities in Singapore are responding to an “unauthorized boarding” of a chemical tanker in the Singapore Strait and evacuating an injured crewmember. It is the latest in a spike of crimes along the Singapore Strait, but the first this year when a crewmember required medical attention. 

The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) and the Singapore Civil Defense Force report that the Singapore-registered chemical tanker Basset (49,875 dwt) was boarded in the early morning hours of Friday, February 28, at approximately 0650 local time while the vessel was underway approximately 2 nautical miles outside Singapore’s territorial waters.

The vessel’s AIS signal shows it had departed Tanjung Pelepas, to the west of S…