Month: May 2012
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IMO to Develop PMSC Guidance
A special high-level segment (photos here) of IMO’s Maritime Safety Committee (MSC), convened by IMO Secretary-General Koji Sekimizu to discuss policy matters related to arms on board ships in the piracy high […]
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Key Role in Jubilee
Royal Navy sailors have fine-tuned their skills before they protect the Queen’s Royal Barge at the Diamond Jubilee. Sailors and Royal Marines took to a plethora of small boats and […]
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Fiery End
HMS Westminster smashed the actions of three pirate groups in a fortnight – sending the boats to the bottom of the Indian Ocean. The Portsmouth-based warship treated the skiffs to […]
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Cracked Gearbox
Bond Offshore Helicopters investigation into the ditching in the North Sea last Thursday, concurs with the UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) report which indicated a component failure. Cracked gearbox […]
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ECDIS ‘Top Guns’
UK based ECDIS training and consultancy company ECDIS Ltd are celebrating over two years award of the Honourable Company of Master Mariners (HCMM) sponsored ECDIS prize. ECDIS ‘Top Guns’ Announced […]
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Back to the Future
Three years on, this July 2009 interview makes interesting reading. For his story on the economics of Somali piracy, Wired contributing editor Scott Carney spoke to one of the ocean-going […]
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Lifting the Concordia
The companies in charge of one of the most expensive and challenging salvage operations ever planned, the removal of the luxury liner Costa Concordia from the granite rocks off the […]
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Chinese Fishermen Freed
All 29 Chinese fishermen kidnapped earlier this month by unidentified armed North Koreans have been freed and are on their way home, Chinese state media said on Sunday. Chinese fishermen […]
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Iran to sue Google
Google is facing legal action over its decision to not label the body of water separating Iran and neighbouring Arab Gulf states on its online map service. Iran ‘to sue […]
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Lost at Sea
Can the Obama administration succeed where its predecessors failed on the Law of the Sea treaty? Lost at Sea By James Kraska, Foreign Policy Few modern treaties have generated more […]
