Tag: maritime news

  • Anarchy at Sea

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    A Voyage through Pirate-Infested Waters By Andreas Ulrich While the European naval mission Atalanta avoids definitive contact with the pirates who plague the waters around the Horn of Africa, shipping […]

  • Armed Security – a credible deterrent to Piracy

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    by Paul Gibbins, Director of Communications, Protection Vessels International At the recent conference ‘Combating Piracy’ in Hamburg, the shipping industry heard the brutal truth that when it comes to piracy, […]

  • Critical Clarification

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    Possibly prompted by criticisms of its catch and released approach, EUNAVFOR has clarified reports of a supposed attack on an LNG carrier. The supposed attack on the vessel “Ejnan” this […]

  • Terror Links

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    Lloyd’s Underwriters are reviewing US assertions that ransoms paid to Somali pirates may fund terrorism. Kenya’s government estimates 30 percent of the ransoms are channelled to al-Shabaab. “We would not […]

  • Problems Grow

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    The arrest of personnel involved in paying ransoms has certainly puzzled some in the industry, and has created yet another problem for shipowners In jailing six foreigners after they took £2.2m ($3.6m) into […]

  • Pirate links to al-Shabab

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    The Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Leon E. Panetta has told the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Terrorism that piracy off the coast of Somalia is possibly funding the […]

  • EU NAVFOR disrupt pirates

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    On 19th June, EU NAVFOR Flag Ship, Portuguese frigate VASCO DA GAMA disrupted a skiff which was suspected of launching an attack on MV EJNAN in the Gulf of Aden […]

  • Indians held hostage

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    Even after six of the Indians held onboard the MV Suez ship were released, it is calculated that there may be as many as 39 Indians still being held hostage […]

  • Failure Rates

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    Pirates are becoming more daring but their success rate is tailing off, a new report says. Hijackings have fallen by one third this year thanks to the efforts of navies […]

  • Nabbed Ashore

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    14 Somali pirates and 3 Yemen nationals were nabbed by police off the Indian coast on Monday (June 20). The group had landed ashore in a boat after it ran […]

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