Author: News Post
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Remembering Seafarers
The Round Table of international shipping associations – and the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) in urging all to remember that over 600 seafarers, of many different nationalities, are currently being held […]
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Saudi Solution
The questions of legality of armed guards on ships have become a grey and problematic area because of the hesitancy of many States to get involved. All too often it […]
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Legal Concerns
Armed security guards may be a pragmatic answer to safeguarding vessels, but Paola Ghiradani, partner at London maritime law firm Stephenson Harwood, speaking in Lloyd’s List has stressed that there […]
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Change of Heart
With the change in attitude towards armed guards it seems that seafarers’ union Nautilus International has been prompted to drop its opposition to their deployment. In the past the union […]
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Ignorance Is Bliss
According to a recent report in Lloyd’s List, shipowners are ignoring official advice and routinely employing armed guards on ships sailing in pirate-infested waters. With the urgent need effective security […]
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Vessels Held Update
An update of ships currently held by Somali pirates: * SOCOTRA 1: Seized on Dec. 25, 2009. Yemeni-owned ship was captured in the Gulf of Aden after it left Alshahr […]
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Security Response Slammed
Mediterranean Shipping Co has hit out at naval forces for failing to come to the assistance of one of its ships that was seized by pirates late last week despite […]
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Heading Home
On 14 December 2010, EUNAVFOR Flagship FS DE GRASSE fulfilled her last day of operations after 4 months conducting counter-piracy activities in the Gulf of Aden and the Somali Basin. […]
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Taking High Office
Summary: 14 December 2010, Brussels – Rear Admiral Juan Rodriguez Garat, from Spain, has taken office as the new EU Force Commander EUNAVFOR Somalia – Operation Atalanta. He succeeds Rear Admiral Philippe […]
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Railgun Record
The US Navy blew away a world record last week at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, Virginia when they successfully fired their new electromagnetic cannon. The experimental cannon is capable […]
