Month: April 2012

  • Wakeup Call

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    More than 1,500 people died when the Titanic sank in 1912. A century later, 32 were killed when a luxury cruise ship, the Costa Concordia, was shipwrecked off the Tuscan […]

  • SPx ECDIS Radar Kit

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    For system integrators looking to build a localised or customed ECDIS solution, Cambridge Pixel’s kit provides components for radar acquisition, radar display, ENC display, target tracking and more. A sample […]

  • Rise in Somali Piracy

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    While there was an overall decline in worldwide pirate activity, figures gathered by risk mitigation company AKE show a notable rise in incidents off the Horn of Africa. March Sees Rise in […]

  • Migrant Boat Tragedy

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    A damning new report into the death of dozens of African migrants who were left drifting in the Mediterranean last year has concluded that Nato contributed to the 63 fatalities, […]

  • Patterns Behind Pirate Attacks

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    Somali pirates now operate across 2.5m square nautical miles of ocean – equivalent to the size of the continental US – and there may be evidence that they employing patterns of […]

  • Staging Vessels Aid Attacks

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    Deployment of motherships by West African pirates off the coast of Nigeria is now an indisputable truth, according to Bergen Risk Solutions. Nigeria follows Somali lead According to Bergen Risk […]

  • Lost in Translation?

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    As pirate attacks on commercial vessels continue to rise, the number of successful hijacks continues to fall, in no small part due to the effectiveness of private maritime security companies. […]

  • Disputed Seas Escalation

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    The Philippines says its main naval vessel is engaged in a stand-off with Chinese surveillance ships at a disputed South China Sea shoal. Philippine Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario (in photograph) […]

  • Reduction in Rates

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    Oslo-headquartered P&I and defense insurance mutual Skuld is offering what it says is a “large reduction” in basic pricing rates for Maritime Kidnap and Ransom insurance. Reduction in Rates for Maritime Kidnap […]

  • NPA installs CCTV cameras

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    In response to the recent allegation by some maritime lawyers that over 500 wharf rats are working for some government agencies at Apapa and Tin Can ports, the Nigerian Ports […]

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