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Joint Media Release: “Shipping industry to remove the Indian Ocean High Risk Area”

August 22, 2022

Joint Media Release – 22 August 2022

“Shipping industry to remove the Indian Ocean High Risk Area”

After more than a decade of effective threat-reducing counter-piracy operations the shipping industry has removed the ‘Indian Ocean High Risk Area’ (HRA).

Notification of the removal of the HRA from 0001 UTC on 1 January 2023 by industry bodies was forwarded in a submission today, 22 August, to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) for the next meeting of the Maritime Safety Committee scheduled to start on 31 October 2022.

Please refer to the attached file for the full Media Release.

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