Rewarding mutineers could be the best way to capture their leaders. By Timothy Coleman & Brittany Minder Escalating maritime piracy off the Horn of Africa and throughout the world’s vital shipping lanes and strategic chokepoints is a modern-day plague with an elusive framework. Failed states and lawless regions around the world, like Somalia, serve as […]
Newsweek Pulls PMPF Profile on Opening Day of Anti Piracy Conference This morning, Newsweek published the article, “To Catch Pirates, Somalia Turns to Outsourcing” written by senior national-security correspondent for Newsweek and The Daily Beast, Eli Lake. The timing was perfect with the opening of the Dubai-based anti piracy conference. ©Somalia Report PMPF Training Base in […]
“Indigenous aircraft carrier programme – a continuing process over the next decade plus”: Admiral Nirmal Verma The Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Nirmal Verma today said “…the global gaze is focusing increasingly on the Asia-Pacific region which underlines the significance of the Indian Ocean in global security affairs”. Speaking about the improving resource allocation to […]
A U.S. Navy P-3 Orion leads a Japanese P-3 in flight over a bilateral force of U.S. and Japanese ships, which were participating in a 1998 RIMPAC exercise. COURTESY OF THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT By WILLIAM COLE The Honolulu Star-Advertiser Pearl Harbor, and by extension Waikiki, are about to become very busy places. Military ships, […]
Expats Ordered Out of Country, Bancroft May Take Over Project By ROBERT YOUNG PELTON On Wednesday June 6th, the principals of Sterling Corporate Services (SCS) were summoned to a meeting in the UAE. The sponsors of the two-year-old program announced to SCS that funding was to cease and that all expatriates (expats) must be out […]
Some high points from the ICC-International Maritime Bureau/Oceans Beyond Piracy Report on piracy in 2011: Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE • 3863 seafarers were assaulted by pirates during the initial stages of an attack by firing weapons incusing assault rifles and rocket propelled grenades (RPGs). • 968 seafarers came in close contact […]
Published on June 21, 2012 by Mark Lowe · No Comments The Greater Lafourche Port Commission in Louisiana recently partnered with systems integration firm Crescent Guardian, Inc. (CGI), to install a best-of-breed of video surveillance system at Port Fourchon, which is located at the base of the Mississippi River on the Gulf of Mexico. Advanced […]
Somali security forces have rescued a South African couple kidnapped by pirates in the Indian Ocean and held for 18 months, Defence Minister Hussein Arab Isse said on Thursday. “The rescue started last night (Wednesday) and lasted until this morning and you can see that the pair were freed safely,” Isse told reporters during a […]
By Irina Smirnova-Godoy The successful application of the EU’s comprehensive approach to combating piracy has resulted in fewer vessels captured by pirates off the coast of Somalia in 2012. At a press conference, on 19 June, organised by the European Naval Force Somalia (EU NAVFOR) Operation Atalanta encouraging progress was reported in improving safe navigation […]
Song Sang-ho, Asia News Network (The Korea Herald), Seoul, South Korea | World | Thu, 05/24/2012 7:38 PM Source: The South Korean Defense Ministry. (Asia News Network/The Korea Herald) Amid intensifying competition among regional powers for maritime primacy, South Korea is not equipped to fend off growing threats to its territorial waters and assert its […]