Tag: Piracy

  • Banning Ransoms

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    InterManager President Alastair Evitt has stated that any move to ban the payment of ransoms to pirates would have a “massively detrimental effect on the risk to the world’s seafarers […]

  • Counter-Piracy Activities Matrix

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    Oceans Beyond Piracy have published an interesting and valid counter-piracy activities matrix. The study examines a number of initiatives and maps them over the matrix according to the following criteria: […]

  • New Hot Spot

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    The modern pirates of Somalia are no swashbuckling buccaneers. They are maritime bandits, disrupting one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes and costing the global economy billions. Recently, they’ve stepped […]

  • Ever More Violent

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    The modern pirates of Somalia are no swashbuckling buccaneers. They are maritime bandits, disrupting one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes and costing the global economy billions. Recently, they’ve stepped […]

  • Private Security Boom

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    Only a few years ago governments frowned at the private armed guards that some ships were using to ward off pirates. Today the private sector solution is being embraced as […]

  • Judge Prolongs Incarceration

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    The two Italian marines appeared in court this morning in Kollam where the judge prolonged their preventative incarceration measure by a further two weeks. Italian Marines to remain in jail […]

  • Piracy Spreads South

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    The risk of Somali piracy moving south towards South Africa is an issue of concern for the country’s Navy. Regional cooperation is viewed as the key to combatting Somali piracy. […]

  • EU Assistance to Asia

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    As Europe’s growth is contingent on Asia’s prosperity, ensuring unrestricted navigation in Asia’s waterways is thus of the utmost strategic interest to the European Union. Given that Asia’s geopolitical hotspots […]

  • Pirate Media

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    As the Maritime Security Review’s Editor-in-Chief has been warning for a long time now, Somali pirates make sophisticated use of social media tools and environments. Members of Somali pirate groups […]

  • Gains Against Piracy

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    Andrew Shapiro, assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, addresses a U.S. Chamber of Commerce event on the current situation of Somali maritime piracy. Some Gains Against […]

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