Industry Sector
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Cowboy Concerns
BIMCO plans to introduce an armed-guard contract as fears grow that scores of second-rate companies are jumping on the piracy bandwagon. Giles Noakes, BIMCO’s chief maritime-security officer, says the new […]
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Under Insured
As more private security companies come under scrutiny there are concerns emerging about the level of insurance that many are carrying. It has been stressed that shipowners could face liability […]
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Ransoms Drop
Ransom payments paid by shipping companies to Somali pirates have reached nearly $110 million this year — a 37 per cent jump in two years — despite the increasing success […]
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Rolling On
According to the latest updated 2011 Reported Maritime Security Incidents – The MSR Rolling Total currently stands at: • 563 total number of incidents as at 31 Oct11 • 382 […]
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Speculation Mounts
There continues to be confusion over the unarmed security guard rumoured to have been onboard the “MT Liquid Velvet” when pirates hijacked the chemical tanker in the Gulf of Aden. […]
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Safe Release
Somali pirates have released 25 of the crew members of Algerian bulk carrier “MV Blida”, hijacked on the high seas in January. Algerian Foreign Affairs ministry’s spokesperson Amar Belani said […]
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Humanitarian Response
In a response to Lloyd’s List article ‘Shipping turns a blind eye to human cost of piracy’, Peter Swift, Chairman of the Maritime Piracy Humanitarian Response Programme has outlined how […]
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Decision Time
The Gibraltar Maritime Administration is analysing whether Gibraltar will follow Britain’s decision to allow armed guards on merchant ships sailing through piracy hotspots. Prime Minister David Cameron said on Sunday […]
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Guard Captured
GCaptain has been posing an interesting question, just who sends a ship to the waters off east Africa with a one-man, unarmed security force? Apparently the Greek owners of the […]
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Prison Break
Two Somali pirates, including one of Somalia’s most famous and ineffectual seafaring criminals, have escaped from Berbera Jail after bribing their prison guards, officials and residents in the Somaliland port […]
