Industry Sector

  • Plans to Double Ocean Economy

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    TAOISEACH ENDA Kenny has described as “dynamic” a new Government plan to double the value of the State’s ocean wealth by 2030. The ocean wealth “roadmap”, which Mr Kenny and […]

  • EMSA Renews Agreement with exactEarth

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    The European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) have recently renewed their service level agreement for Satellite AIS data with exactEarth. EMSA have utilized exactAIS® data over the last year for a […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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. […]

  • Shipping Crisis

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    The world economic slowdown has led to a decline in goods being shipped with the consequence that many maritime enterprises, especially shipping lines, face bankruptcy. Shipping firms face bankruptcy Many […]

  • Ideally Located

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    As a scenario for a training exercise, read the following article from the BBC bearing in mind leading risk consultancy firm Veritas’ observation that <<Those amongst us with criminal intentions […]

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