According to the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) International Maritime Bureau’s (IMB) global piracy report attacks in East and West...
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Security firms led by G4S are providing armed guards to ships sailing pirate-infested Somali waters, with one start-up kitting out...

“Pirates of the Caribbean” they aren’t. They are for the most part desperate men from a failed state that have...
Germany plans to lobby other European Union countries to allow the deployment of private armed guards on their merchant ships...
Gray Page, a specialist maritime intelligence, investigation and crisis management company, has advised that the IMO’s Maritime Safety Committee’s (MSC)...
Risks are growing that incidents at sea involving China could lead to war in Asia, potentially drawing in the United...
Ship owners are becoming increasingly concerned about the financial consequences of a rise in ship charterers filing for bankruptcy. In...
Maritime security firms have come together to create a code of conduct and ethics, prompted by alarm over the rising...
Piracy at sea hit an all-time high in the first three months of 2011, with 142 attacks worldwide, the International...
Ship owners are calling on governments to curb the escalating threat from the increasingly audacious attacks by Somali pirates. The...