Month: September 2012
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Goodbye Terrorism, Hello Territorial Dispute
Officials in the Philippines have stated that marines have been assigned the duty of helping reinforce the country’s claims in disputed South China Sea territories. Filipino marines shift from terror […]
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‘Severe’ Meeting
The Japanese and Chinese foreign ministers have held talks in New York on a bitter row over disputed islands. Japan-China ministers in ‘severe’ meeting over islands row The Japanese and […]
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Burmese Seafarers’ Future
As Myanmar increasingly opens up to the outside world an inevitable increase in living standards and by extension wages has some shipmanagers on edge. What future for Burmese seafarers? As […]
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Tackling Piracy
During the launch of the African Aerospace and Defence exhibition, Government Minister Mapisa-Nqakula said that South Africa will continue to support regional efforts to fight piracy and maritime crime. SA set to […]
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Death Penalty
To escape execution, Malaysian prosecutors have offered seven suspected Somali pirates charged with offences that carry the death penalty the chance to admit lesser crimes Malaysia offers pirate suspects no execution […]
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STCW Compliance
STCW aims to achieve a reduction to the 80% of accidents attributable to human error. Proper training and evaluation can make a real difference and Videotel‘s newly launched STCW training […]
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Caribbean Security Risks
In this post, written ahead of Defence IQ’s Cabsec 2013 conference, Alex Stephenson examines why a combination of factors including threat, vulnerability and impact should make us take particular note of […]
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Security for a Fee
In a somewhat ironic following of Italy’s example, the Indian Central Industrial Security Force is to provide armed personnel aboard Indian merchant ships for a fee. CISF ready to secure ships […]
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Understanding the Conflict
The anniversary of China and Japan having normalised diplomatic relations comes at a low point in Sino-Japanese relations due to a dispute over an island chain in the East China Sea known […]
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Party Over?
Most piracy experts agree that it’s too early to declare victory, however, the numbers are startling: in 2010 pirates seized 47 vessels, so far this year only 5 Somali pirates’ […]
