Malaysian carrier MISC Berhad has banned any of its vessels from entering the Gulf of Aden after two of its vessels were hijacked by pirates in August, international news agencies reported.
Two MISC tankers were taken over off the coast of Somalia, with one crewmember dying in the first attack, on Aug. 19. A second attack came 10 days later, the eighth such ship to be hijacked in the waterway since July 20, Associated Press reported.
The Gulf of Aden, which lies between Yemen and Somalia and connects the Red Sea and Indian Ocean, sees 20,000 vessels a year transit its waters, but the increasingly dangerous coast of Somalia has seen shipping agencies lose faith with the lane, even as an international coalition of ships and planes patrols the gulf.
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