Month: March 2012

  • Banning Ransoms

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    InterManager President Alastair Evitt has stated that any move to ban the payment of ransoms to pirates would have a “massively detrimental effect on the risk to the world’s seafarers […]

  • Counter-Piracy Activities Matrix

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    Oceans Beyond Piracy have published an interesting and valid counter-piracy activities matrix. The study examines a number of initiatives and maps them over the matrix according to the following criteria: […]

  • Easy emergency access to oil tanks

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    These days, when a ship is in trouble, there is immediate attention focused upon to the risk of any oil pollution. Any report of a grounding or collision, even a […]

  • Latin American Solidarity

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    As the 30th anniversary of the Falklands Conflict approaches tensions increase in Latin America. In a display of solidarity with Argentina over the Falklands question, the Peruvian government has cancelled […]

  • New Hot Spot

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    The modern pirates of Somalia are no swashbuckling buccaneers. They are maritime bandits, disrupting one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes and costing the global economy billions. Recently, they’ve stepped […]

  • Ever More Violent

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    The modern pirates of Somalia are no swashbuckling buccaneers. They are maritime bandits, disrupting one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes and costing the global economy billions. Recently, they’ve stepped […]

  • Commitment to Anti-Piracy

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    In these times of fiscal austerity, should the United States be overly concerned about a phenomenon on the other side of the world that does not directly threaten the country’s […]

  • Private Security Boom

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    Only a few years ago governments frowned at the private armed guards that some ships were using to ward off pirates. Today the private sector solution is being embraced as […]

  • IHO Tests

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    Fictitious Electronic Navigational Chart cells issued to verify if ECDIS software is up to date and conforms to the latest ECDIS standards for displaying chart data. ECDIS anomalies and IHO […]

  • Annus Horribilis Continues

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    The cruise industry’s annus horribilis continues, CNN has reported that the Silversea Cruises ship Silver Shadow collided last Friday with a cargo ship in Vietnam’s Ha Long Bay in heavy […]

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