This vessel was initially named LADY VI-T-III and flagged to Indonesia. After a brief stint named KAWIL NO. 03, this vessel renamed to SAMUDERA PASIFIC NO. 18 in January 2007 but maintained the Indonesia flag throughout. This vessel was included in the ICCAT IUU list on 25 November 2013 for contravention of transhipment regulations. In the first quarter of 2014, the Senegalese Agence Nationale des Affaires Maritimes (ANAM) detained a vessel they believed to be SAMUDERA PACIFIC NO. 8 but deduced it was this vessel, SAMUDERA PASIFIC NO. 18. Against Senegalese orders this vessel, SAMUDERA PASIFIC NO. 18, absconded from the port of Dakar in a similar manner to which the SAMUDERA PACIFIC NO. 8 had fled South African jurisdiction in November 2013. A few months later, a fishing vessel named TAI YUAN NO. 227 entered Dakar with the same master and crew that had left on the SAMUDERA PASIFIC NO. 18, and it in turn was detained for related maritime offenses. The three vessels (SAMUDERA PASIFIC NO. 18, SAMUDERA PACIFIC NO. 8 and TAI YUAN NO. 227) are believed to be operated by the same companies, one being BALI OCEAN ANUGRAH LINGER INDONESIA PT, and to operate cooperatively. Sources suggest BALI OCEAN ANUGRAH LINGER INDONESIA, PT has owned and operated this vessel since 2007. This vessel received multiple licenses to fish in the IOTC and CCSBT convention areas between 2007 and 2014, reportedly authorised through Indonesia. This vessel has since been included in the GFCM IUU list in May 2014 and cross listed to the SIOFA and IOTC IUU lists in 2019.
