Month: March 2012
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EU Assistance to Asia
As Europe’s growth is contingent on Asia’s prosperity, ensuring unrestricted navigation in Asia’s waterways is thus of the utmost strategic interest to the European Union. Given that Asia’s geopolitical hotspots […]
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Clashes Over Maritime Ambitions
China, which is now reportedly preparing to put into service its first aircraft carrier ‘Varyag’ sometime later this year, has renewed its claim to jurisdiction over Ieodo, a submerged rock south […]
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Pirate Media
As the Maritime Security Review’s Editor-in-Chief has been warning for a long time now, Somali pirates make sophisticated use of social media tools and environments. Members of Somali pirate groups […]
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Gains Against Piracy
Andrew Shapiro, assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, addresses a U.S. Chamber of Commerce event on the current situation of Somali maritime piracy. Some Gains Against […]
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A Captain’s Duty
Tom Hanks to play Captain Phillips in a pirate film which may be titled Maersk Alabama after the name of Captain Phillips’ ship. The film will be concerned largely with […]
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Rogue Wave Capsizes Fishing Boat
12m rogue wave causes fishing boat to capsize. Captain, Rewai Karetai, who was hailed as a hero for saving three people earlier this year, is amongst the missing. New Zealand […]
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US to Deploy Additional Minesweepers
According to the Jerusalem Post, a US Senate committee was told by the US Navy’s top officer on Thursday that the United States is sending four minesweeping ships and four […]
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Bell Done?!
According to the Associated Press, despite ongoing salvage efforts and the search for seven missing people presumed dead, the bell from the Costa Concordia has disappeared. Capsized cruise ship’s bell disappears off […]
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MEPs on Piracy
Some members of the European Parliament believe that Strasbourg should provide clearer guidelines on the growing phenomenon of shipowners using private armed guards to protect their boats from pirates. Fight […]
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Revolution in Navigation
Some have suggested that the introduction of ECDIS is as much of a change in navigational practices as was the change from sail to steam or, in engineering terms, the […]
