Month: August 2012
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Maritime Security Issues
US Naval Forces Europe participated in the first Senegal navy staff talks at the Senegal navy headquarters in Dakar. Maritime safety and security in Senegal’s coastal waters and the Gulf […]
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Much at Stake
Vast oil reserves, trillion-dollar trade routes, fervent nationalist sentiments, competing territorial claims and bitter histories – the waters off the east coast of China are a sea of money and […]
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Pirate Hostage Comes Home
George Lipih Ambo, a Malaysian who was kidnapped by pirates in the Gulf of Guinea, Nigeria and held for 20 days had never thought he would able to return home […]
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Troubled Waters
Pirate attacks worldwide has witnessed a sharp decline in the first half of 2012 as international naval efforts played a key role in “frustrating” the menace posed by Somali pirates, […]
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Chokepoints
World oil chokepoints for maritime transit of oil are a critical part of global energy security. About half of the world’s oil production moves on maritime routes. Chokepoints are narrow […]
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Fishing Without Nets
The Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking at the Sundance 2012 Film Festival went to FISHING WITHOUT NETS, directed by Cutter Hodierne, and co-written by Hodierne and John Hibey. An epic […]
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Coastal Surveillance 2012
Asia-Pacific’s Premier Maritime Security and Surveillance Forum Dedicated to the Maritime Community Never Before in 9 Years: Operational Commanders’ Perspective from EU NAVFOR and CTF-151 The 9th annual Coastal Surveillance […]
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ECDIS Challenges
Despiter the introduction compulsory requirement for certain vessels to carry Electronic Chart Display and Information Systems (ECDIS), the experience gleaned from the ECDIS Revolution series of conferences has made evident the fact […]
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Honing Take-Down Skills
Royal Marines aboard HMS Sutherland have been practising their pirate vessel boarding techniques using ‘rapid roping’ from the frigate’s helicopter in the middle of the Indian Ocean. HMS Sutherland crew […]
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Part of the Solution
Providing security teams is only one of the services that PSC provide. Others include security intelligence, risk assessment and consulting; crisis response; and intervention. Maritime PSC: Not the Solution, But […]
