Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
Private Security
Slowing Down
With last year’s bill for running faster through high-risk areas put at $2.7bn, shipping companies have switched to relying on guards, rather than speed, for
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Boom in the UAE
Mahmood Mohammed Amin, chief executive of World Security, on how the security market has shifted with the country’s growth, increased piracy at sea and the challenges
Shippers Arm Themselves
From the perspective of private industry, hiring armed guards has traditionally been viewed as a costly and risky move that creates more liabilities than it resolves. Furthermore the shipping industry ...
Lost in Translation?
As pirate attacks on commercial vessels continue to rise, the number of successful hijacks continues to fall, in no small part due to the effectiveness of private maritime security companies. ...
Armed Security
Dramatic footage of a pirate attack against an unknown merchant vessel. We have no idea what the circumstances were or from which ship this video was taken but it clearly ...
Crime wave
The changing nature of piracy and related illegal maritime activity has forced a rethink in the way governments and businesses approach the threat, writes Alex Chitty Crime wave Alex Chitty, Global Response As ...
Muirhead and Jones on SCEG
Global Response’s Alex Chitty spoke with Oona Muirhead CBE, Director of the ADS Security in Complex Environments (SCEG) Group, and Simon Jones, Chair of the SCEG Maritime Security Working Group ...
European Commission Piracy Event
The seminar analysed the reinforcement of self-protection measures. Sensitive topics included shipbuilding standards and the technology available for discouraging attacks as well as the very delicate subject of using privately ...
GUARDCON Contract Published
BIMCO has published the GUARDCON standard contract for the employment of security guards on vessels. GUARDCON’s objective is to create a contractual benchmark for the employment of security services so ...
Floating Armouries
Officials in Kenya have raised concerns over the "legal gray area" represented by the practise of private security firms storing weapons aboard floating armouries in international waters. Piracy fighters use floating armouries Nairobi - ...Next Page »