Month: April 2011
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India’s Once & Future Sea Power
James Holmes, an associate professor of strategy at the US Naval War College and co-author of ‘Red Star over the Pacific’, an Atlantic Monthly Best Book of 2010, has written […]
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India’s Growing Maritime Power
In the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars’ recent publication ‘India’s Contemporary Security Challenges‘, Arun Prakash, the Head of the National Maritime Foundation in New Delhi and a former Indian […]
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IMDEX Asia 2011
IMDEX Asia 2011, Anchoring Asia Pacific’s New Wave of Maritime Growth The return of Asia Pacific’s only dedicated Maritime defence show promises to be the biggest and the best 20 […]
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Saharan Express
When the Pentagon established a new regional combatant command known as Africa Command (AFRICOM) in February 2007 there was only one country, Liberia, prepared to host an AFRICOM regional Headquarters. […]
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MV Renuar Released
According to a EU Navfor press release issued yesterday, on the 23rd April the bulk carrier MV Renuar was released from pirate control after 133 days in captivity. The Liberian owned, […]
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Striking Back
Indian maritime unions and shipping organisations warned that piracy could prompt a withdrawal of labour from countries providing crews if nothing is done to tackle the problem. “There is a […]
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Not Guilty Plea
A Somali man the U.S. believes to be the highest-ranking pirate it has ever captured pleaded not guilty in federal court Wednesday to piracy, kidnapping and weapons charges. The court […]
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Taken Down
Samho Shipping has been brought to the brink of bankruptcy by Pirates and a combination of financial difficulties. Low freight rates, high bunker prices and the costs associated with two […]
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Running out of Patience
When you are provoked beyond all measure and there seems no immediate prospect of respite, you are entitled to protest as loudly as you are able. So if the man […]
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Deathboats, not Lifeboats
It is hard to think of another piece of safety equipment that inspires in those it is meant to save as much mistrust and dread as the lifeboat. Such is […]
