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- Coping with change: taking the fight to the pirates
- BACK in 2005, attention turned from the Malacca Straits to the Horn of Africa, as a new piracy hot spot emerged.
- Casualty briefs 11 October 2012
- Maritime
- Banning ransoms is not the answer, say marine insurers
- THE PROPOSAL to ban ransom payments will not solve the problem of piracy and will instead increase uncertainty and harm hijacked crews, according to International Union of Marine Insurance president Ole Wikborg.
- Casualty briefs 4 October 2012
- Maritime
- Owner of sunken ship blames the Sri Lankan government
- SCARLET Shipping Co, the Greek owner of 1985-built, 24,784 dwt Thermopylae Sierra, which sank off Sri Lanka on August 23, has released a statement calling the Sri Lankan government “totally and ultimately responsible for the sinking as well as for any consequential damages.”
- P&I clubs should invest in salvage equipment
- FACED with increasingly complex new marine risks, the salvage market is warning that it cannot do everything alone and has called on the insurance market to share the burden of cost.
- Casualty briefs 27 September 2012
- Maritime
- Somali piracy may be down but it is far from out
- AS THE monsoon season draws to a close, shipowners should expect piracy to increase but to a lesser extent than last year. However this is in no way a sign that the problem is over, according to experts.
- Casualty briefs 20 September 2012
- Maritime
- Vessels with armed guards are ‘most vulnerable’ entering port
- CONFUSION over weapons transfer in the high-risk area must be addressed as it is only a matter of time before an armed team comes under attack as its arms are bonded or put away, warns the private maritime security industry.
- Casualty briefs 13 September 2012
- Maritime
- Spain loses appeal in Prestige lawsuit against class society
- THE classification sector appears to have dodged a potentially fatal bullet, after Spain lost its US$1bn Prestige lawsuit against US class society ABS in a federal appellate court in New York on August 30.
- Casualty briefs 6 September 2012
- Maritime
- Sri Lanka pushes security firms to offshore armouries
- PRIVATE maritime security companies (PMSCs) are being forced offshore in Sri Lanka because its port authorities refuse to recognise UK licences and are telling firms to hire weapons from a local offshore armoury or face a ban on operating there.
- Casualty briefs 30 August 2012
- Maritime
- Plight of stricken boxship exposes loophole in places-of-refuge rules
- A LOOPHOLE in the European Directive that tells member states to draw up plans for places of refuge for stricken vessels is allowing member states to turn away the stricken boxship MSC Flaminia.
- Bureaucracy thwarts efforts to move MSC Flaminia to safe port
- THE FATE of MSC Flaminia remains in the balance as poor weather and bureaucracy hamper attempts to get the vessel into a safe port or place of refuge.
- Casualty briefs 23 August 2012
- Maritime
- Royal Navy warships protect stricken boxship
- TWO Royal Navy ships intervened to protect stricken boxship New Delhi Express after it suffered an engine breakdown in the Gulf of Aden last week, making it an easy target for the pirates that continue to menace the region.
- US warns shipping to beware bogus surveillance
- UNKNOWN entities are carrying out surveillance on shipping in the Gulf of Oman, the Strait of Hormuz and the Middle East Gulf, the US Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) has warned in a circular.
