Month: July 2012

  • Bypassing Syria

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    BEIRUT: The Agriculture Ministry is pursuing efforts to facilitate maritime transport to compensate for delays in land cargo through Syria, where the security situation has deteriorated significantly in the last […]

  • Maritime Security Business Model

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    Security contractors continue to search for a winning business model in the increasingly competitive anti-piracy industry. Within the grand scheme of global security threats, pirates are specks of dust. But […]

  • Marsecreview recognised for content

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    Maritime Security Review has been named in a recent article on Marine Insight highlighting useful resources for information on maritime piracy and Somali Pirates.  To read the article click here. […]

  • The Piracy Equilibrium

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    In the first of the MSR Viewpoint series, maritime security consultant Paul Gibbins examines the possible consequences of EUNAVFOR’s raid on Somali soil and comments on the need for longterm solutions to Somali piracy. […]

  • Flashpoints

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    Things are heating up in the Greater Pacific, in this article Foreign Policy examines five key spots to watch closely. 5 Flashpoints in the South China Sea As tensions mount […]

  • Beefing up Security

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    Griffon Hovercraft Ltd of Southampton, England, have supplied the newly-established Coast Guard Region (North East) in Kolkata, India, with a state-of-the-art H-188 Hovercraft. West Bengal gets state-of-the-art hovercraft to beef up maritime […]

  • Screening Concerns

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    During a congressional hearing, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano was informed of concerns over the inability of the Department of Homeland Security to scan 100 percent of cargo coming into US […]

  • Chinese Investment

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    Work on the Chinese financed US$ 900 million project to develop a 575 acre port city in Colombo is scheduled to commence in October.  Colombo Port City project to commence work in October The […]

  • China’s Military Moment

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    Beguiled by undersea oil and gas deposits and the weakness of fellow claimants to the Paracel Islands, China launched a naval offensive to seize the disputed archipelago. China’s Military Moment […]

  • Port Security Questioned

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    An American federal agency has suggested that Canadian ports taking in U.S.-bound cargo lack the security measures in place in the United States for cargo shipped directly to its ports. […]

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