Tag: Piracy

  • Centralised Protection

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    US-based company Armed Piracy Defence is proposing a centralised approach to ensure that all ships within high risk areas will have anti piracy security teams on board. These security teams […]

  • The Forgotten Hostages

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    The plight of a ship’s crew held hostage for more than two and half years has become a “scar on the conscience of the shipping industry”. Abandoned at sea – […]

  • Plunge in Piracy

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    According to statistics released by the United States Navy, acts of piracy in the treacherous waters around the Horn of Africa have fallen sharply in 2012. U.S. Reports That Piracy […]

  • Pirate Archaeology

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    Archaeologists in Panama have begun the search for the ships of Captain Henry Morgan, a legendary English pirate who defeated Spanish imperial forces in the seventeenth century before pillaging the […]

  • Troubled Waters

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    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, […]

  • Fishing Without Nets

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    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 […]

  • Honing Take-Down Skills

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    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 […]

  • Part of the Solution

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    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 […]

  • The Wider Picture

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       Somalia’s Piracy Compromises Its Neighbors The al Qaeda-allied Somali terrorists of Al-Shabaab (“The Youth”), and the pirates that comprise their “navy,” have repeatedly gained world attention—and then been forgotten. […]

  • On Piracy

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    Former Commander of the international naval task force CTF 151 Aage Buur Jensen discusses the issue of piracy off the coast of east Africa and his expectations for the future. […]

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