Tag: Maritime Security

  • Activity Alert

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    Today has seen reported pirate activity centred near Latitude 1350N Longitude 06554E. At 0432 UTC a merchant vessel was reported under attack by a group of pirates using a single […]

  • Cash Calls

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    The Somali pirates who have been holding seven Danes as hostage since February have turned down a ransom of around US$600,000. The brother of Jan Quist Johansen, whose family was […]

  • Another Success

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    The top secret mission into Pakistan that killed Osama Bin Laden was carried out by Navy SEAL Team Six. This is the same unit that rescued Maersk Alabama’s Captain Richard […]

  • Heading Home

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    The Finnish Navy’s flagship, the mine-laying vessel “Pohjanmaa”, has concluded her high profile participation in the EU-led Operation Atalanta off the Horn of Africa. The task of the Pohjanmaa in […]

  • Striking Back

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    Indian maritime unions and shipping organisations warned that piracy could prompt a withdrawal of labour from countries providing crews if nothing is done to tackle the problem. “There is a […]

  • Running out of Patience

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    When you are provoked beyond all measure and there seems no immediate prospect of respite, you are entitled to protest as loudly as you are able. So if the man […]

  • War Zone

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    The Lloyd’s decision to categorise India’s west coast as a ‘war zone’ as part of a  Joint War Committee decision on “listed area” of its “Hull War, Strikes, Terrorism and […]

  • In Denial

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    Foreign navies have denied involvement in an incident that claimed the lives of six suspected pirates ashore near the Somali town of Hobyo. Locals claim an unidentified naval helicopter opened […]

  • Cash Pledge

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    South Korea has pledged US$500,000 to the international trust fund aimed at combating piracy off the coast of Somalia, according to Seoul’s foreign ministry. The contribution was announced at a […]

  • 5th Maritime Risk Management Conference

    Understand better how to motivate crew to consistently carry out safer operations Determine how to restructure risk management strategies to deal with current perils Learn how best to deal with […]

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