Tag: maritime piracy
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Tipping Point
Brutal attacks on captured seafarers have reached a “tipping point”, and according to the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) it is time for a drag-net approach to clamp down on the […]
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Rolling Totals
The Rolling Total of reported maritime security incidents continues to grow, and the following are the figures up the end of April 2011. They make grim reading, as you might […]
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Doubling Up
There has been a focus lately on the “wages” which Somali pirates can expect to earn over a “career”. Over a five year spree a pirate can make $168,000-$394,000, though […]
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Liability Issues
While the use of arms on ships has seen some begrudging acceptance, there is still the small matter of legality to consider. The biggest underlying concern for owners and masters […]
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Who Are You?
With shipping facing a threat like no other off Somalia it seems we have been abandoned with only a private unregulated army of former soldiers and marines, gap year students and nightclub bouncers, […]
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Blockade Calls
US Senator Mark Kirk, has been sharing more thoughts on piracy after his fact-finding trip to the Horn of Africa. He thinks the U.S. Navy should put a total blockade […]
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Earnings Boom
Despite some lowering of ransom levels across the latest negotiations, it has emerged that Somali pirates are earning as much as 157 times their country’s national average wage. This naturallly makes […]
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Ill Treatment
Two Danish hostages held since February were reported to be ill but their captors were not willing to let a doctor see them, according to reports. The Danish woman and […]
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Hotting Up
The war against the Somali pirates is heating up. Warships are finding and destroying 2-3 mother ships a week now. Indian and Indonesian warships are increasingly opening fire on pirates, […]
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Kidnap Demands
The Somali pirates holding seven Indian crew of “MT Asphalt Venture” hostage have refused to negotiate with the ship owners and insisted they would engage only with the government authorities. […]
