Hot Port News from GAC 10-day quarantine curfew declared 21 Aug 2021, Sri LankaThe Sri Lankan government has decided to impose a quarantine curfew across the island from 10.00 p.m.…
Vestdavit wins contract to supply six French Navy vessels Leading marine-davit manufacturer Vestdavit has secured a contract with shipbuilder Socarenam to supply fast rescue boat davit systems for six patrouilleurs d’outre-mer (POM)…
American P&I Club: MSCI notice on the threat to commercial vessels from Iran and its proxies: guidance generally as to shipboard vigilance JANUARY 08, 2020 MARITIME SECURITY COMMUNICATIONS WITH INDUSTRY…
AMERICAN CLUB MEMBER ALERT (July 23, 2019) RE – ENHANCED VIGILANCE RECOMMENDED FOR VESSELS TRANSITING ARABIAN GULF (AG), STRAITS OF HORMUZ (SOH) AND GULF OF OMAN (GOO) Following incidents of…
The first Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project regional mapping meeting for the Atlantic and Indian Oceans took place this month at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. The meeting…
Underestimating the security risk in the Indian Ocean could put ships in great danger once again, says leading maritime security company MAST Ltd. Gerry Northwood OBE, COO of MAST, said:…
26 December 2014 – It has been ten years since a massive tsunami swept across the Indian Ocean killing more than 200, 000 people and devastating coastline communities from Indonesia…
22 December 2014 – Ten years after the Indian Ocean tsunami hit South and Southeast Asia, countries in the region are better prepared to deal with tragedies, the United Nations…
Drum Cussac, the leading global business risk consultancy, and Ambrey Risk, the leading global maritime security risk management provider have agreed the sale and purchase of Drum Cussac’s maritime transits…
Piracy’s gone away, right? You’d be forgiven for thinking that. The predominant narrative for the Indian Ocean is that Piracy has been suppressed to an extent that ship-owners are requesting…
A happy time for Somali Pirates, by Iro J. Theophanides Strategic director of Unics Ltd. A strike to Assad’s arsenal may have a possible domino effect in the entire Middle East.…
The Paris, Tokyo, Indian Ocean and Black Sea Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) on port state control will carry out a joint concentrated inspection campaign (CIC) to verify compliance with…