Alok Jha, science correspondent Exotic deep-sea creatures have been found by volcanic vents in the Indian Ocean Link to this video British scientists have found a remarkable array of creatures, some of them new to science, in one of the most inhospitable regions of the deep sea. In the first ever expedition to explore and […]
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda and his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh on Wednesday (December 28) signed a joint statement enhancing cooperation in maritime security activities in the Indian Ocean. Noda and Singh held talks at the Hyderabad House, an Indian government guesthouse, and agreed to boost the “Strategic and Global Partnership” between the two countries […]
German officials say the European Union is considering expanding the scope of its anti-piracy mission off the Horn of Africa to allow the destruction of pirates’ equipment on the beaches of Somalia. The EU’s anti-piracy force patrols the seas off the coast of the country. Somalia has been mired in violence since 1991 — plunging […]
Seafarers are being asked to complete a survey about proposed UK legislation aimed at protecting them from piracy, which will allow private security contractors aboard British merchant vessels. Nautilus member, David Gale, who is currently studying for a work-based learning degree through the University Middlesex, wants the help of UK seafarers for the survey. His intended […]
K. A. MARTIN The hijacking of an Italian cargo vessel with seven Indian crew members on board off the coast of Oman by suspected Somali pirates on Tuesday takes the number of Indian seafarers taken hostage in 2011 to nearly 100. Of this, 63 were reportedly released. Figures from the Ministry of Shipping say that […]
While piracy attacks off the coast of unstable Somalia have garnered lots of attention in recent years, maritime security experts say it is on Africa’s western coast, in the oil rich Gulf of Guinea, where piracy attacks are currently on the rise. Militants hidden behind bandanas from Nigeria’s Niger Delta oil region fire machine […]
[NMS Note: This article was published on Christmas Eve, and we missed it at the time.] Veeresh Malik The business of saving ships from piracy is now apparently worth multiples of what the business of pirating ships accrues, and with shipping freight rates hardening in the dry bulk and liquid markets, and shooting through the roof in gas carrier trades, the effect […]
BRENDAN NICHOLSON AN Australian warship has rescued the crew of an Iranian vessel adrift in the Gulf of Aden with no food or water. The captain of the motorised dhow sent out a distress call late last week saying his vessel was out of fuel, food and water off the eastern coast of Yemen. The […]
Policy inconsistency, poor implementation, and instability, among other factors combined to impede the actualisation of the huge potentials in the maritime sector of the Nigerian economy in 2011; writes John Iwori, who has been following the developments in the sector More than anything else, the recent failure of Nigeria to clinch the coveted seat in […]
Chandigarh, Dec 29 (PTI) Sampa Arya, who became the face of the campaign to ‘save our sailors’, is among six persons recommended by Haryana government for ‘Stree Shakti Puraskar-2011’, conferred by Union Ministry of Women and Child Development. Sampa, hailing from Sonepat, had waged a relentless battle to secure the release of her husband, who […]