Tag: anti piracy maritime security
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Trilateral talks to check China
India begins trilateral talks to check China Jayanth Jacob, Hindustan Times New Delhi, December 20, 2011 India, Sri Lanka and Maldives have formed a trilateral dialogue on maritime security at […]
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Maritime Cyber Security
First EU-Report on Maritime Cyber Security BRUSSELS and HERAKLION, Greece, December 20, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — ENISA has published the first EU report ever on cyber security challenges in […]
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Chinese Invite
The Seychelles has invited China to set up a base to counter piracy in the region, the Seychelles’ Foreign Affairs Minister has announced. The Seychelles hosts anti-piracy forces from other […]
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Mission Continues
Operation Atalanta, the EU operation against piracy in the Indian Ocean, has been heralded the most successful EU mission to date and is likely to be extended. Since 1 December, […]
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Firing Away
In a rather surprising admission, one maritime security provider has spoken out at length in Lloyd’s List on the growing number of unreported negligent discharges of weapons by private armed […]
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Suez Rules
The ban on the carriage of Armed Guards, Weapons and Ammunition through the Suez Canal introduced in August 2011 has been amended. Vessels are now permitted to transit the Suez […]
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Flagging Concerns
Shipping firms which place private armed security guards on ships passing areas where pirates operate risk criminal prosecution, Dutch justice minister Ivo Opstelten said last week. Jumbo Shipping from Rotterdam […]
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PAG Destroyed
Following a coordinated search and detection by a French Maritime Patrol and Reconnaissance aircraft, the German warship “FGS KOLN”, operating as part of the EUNAVFOR, disrupted a pirate action group […]
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Private Navy
The company behind the world’s first private navy to protect merchant ships against Somali pirates plans to start armed escorts through the Gulf of Aden within five months after attacks […]
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Under Insured
As more private security companies come under scrutiny there are concerns emerging about the level of insurance that many are carrying. It has been stressed that shipowners could face liability […]
