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The owner of the Singapore-flagged Success 9 vessel has not been able to communicate with the vessel, the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) said on Thursday, April 13.

This was after the vessel was boarded by pirates around 570km off the Ivory Coast on April 9.

The chemical and oil product tanker had 20 crew members on board and one of them was a Singaporean.

MPA said in an update it has contacted the other authorities in the region, including the Ivory Coast and Ghanaian authorities, in addition to the Monrovia Regional Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre.

The Ivory Coast authorities have deployed their air and sea assets to the vicinity of the last known position of the vessel, MPA added.

HS Ocean owns the vessel.

Pirates were believed to have boarded the vessel about 300 nautical miles from the city of Abidjan.

The Maritime Domain Awareness for Trade - Gulf of Guinea, a joint maritime monitoring effort by France and Britain, also said in an update on Thursday that the vessel is "not transmitting on automatic identification systems".

Success 9 was described as a “black-hulled tanker with a white superstructure", with a "white funnel with blue stripes".

Vessels in the vicinity were urged to report any sightings of the ship, or any suspicious activity.

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