Tag: maritime piracy

New MPHRP survey: Calling all Piracy Survivors

According to maritime security company GoAGT, there is very little piracy in the Gulf of Guinea but criminal gangs are active and organize attacks for cargo theft or kidnapping and ransom inside terittorial waters.

Personnel from the Combined Maritime Forces (CMF) met with representatives from the United Nations Somalia and Eritrean Monitoring Group (UNSEMG) to gain a better understanding of each organisations effort within the Somali region

"From one problem to even a bigger problem," describes Festus Andang'o of the FV Golden Wave after his release from pirate captivity left him and his crewmates without any wages or support

The NATO has issued latest Weekly Piracy Assessment for reporting period 06 February - 11 February 2014. Please click at table below to enlarge and view updates for this week.

ONI Piracy Report on Horn of Africa Gulf of Guinea for reporting period 06 February - 12 February 2014

ICS proposals on IMO issues The Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), representing national shipowners' associations from 35 nations and over 80% of the world merchant fleet, met in London recently to discuss the progress on serious issues regarding IMO Ballast Water Management Convention, CO2 Monitoring and Reporting and Piracy.IMO Ballast Water Management ConventionICS Still has Serious Concerns about Type-Approval Standards for New Treatment EquipmentThe ICS Board agreed that ICS will continue to refrain from actively encouraging administrations that have not yet ratified the Ballast Water Management (BWM) Convention from making the additional ratifications required to bring about immediate entry into force.ICS believes that governments should wait until outstanding implementation problems have been resolved at the International Maritime Organization (IMO), hopefully at the next meeting of the IMO Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) in April, at which ICS (in co-operation with other industry organisations) has proposed a way forward.ICS Chairman, Masamichi Morooka, explained: "In principle ICS fully supports the eventual entry into force of the Convention and wants to make it work as soon as possible in order provide protection against invasive species. But the industry still has very serious concerns with respect to the lack ...

One of the primary tasks of the EU Naval Force Somalia Operation Atalanta is the protection of World Food Programme (WFP) ships and other vulnerable shipping in the Gulf of Aden and Western Indian Ocean

The men and women on board French Navy warship FS Siroco should be rightly proud of their achievements as they reach the half way point in their deployment with the European Union's counter piracy operation off the coast of Somalia

In 2012, Denmark amended its Act on armed guards on board Danish ships. Until then, only the State could arrange for armed protection on ships but now, legislation opened up for private guards.