Subscribe to RSS feedBIMCO stands firm on armed guards for ships
THE world’s largest shipowner organisation has pledged to fight mounting pressure from within the US State Department for shipowners to use the services of armed guards to counter piracy in the Gulf of Aden, writes David Osler in Lisbon.
Wednesday 17 June 2009
Speaking outside the European Maritime Safety Agency conference in Lisbon yesterday, BIMCO
secretary-general Torben Skaanild told Lloyd’s List that the use of military forces to rescue the master of US-flag boxship Maersk Alabama
had...
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