Monday, May 21, 2007

Maritime Monday 60 at Fred Fry International

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It time for Fred Fry International: Maritime Monday 60 . This week Fred holds a "cattle call" on a some livestock carriers and a w...

Gasoline Prices

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An excellent piece on gasoline prices from the NY Times on Oil Price ‘Gouging’: A Phantom Menace? : THE average price of gasoline in the Uni...

Martime Liaison Office Bahrain issues Somalia Warning

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MARLO warning to stay well away from coast of Somalia can be found as MARLO Advisory Bulletin 20 May 2007 : Due to a recent resurgence of pi...
Sunday, May 20, 2007

LA port security economic issues

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Natural disaster or terrorism the LA area ports need to be prepared, as they are important to the U.S. economy, as set out here : Decades of...

U.S. Navy to help with West African piracy

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Reported here : The United States is boosting its naval presence along the lawless West African coast to combat terrorism, illegal migration...

Somalia pirates kill World Food Program sea-going guard, WFP ship escapes

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Somalii pirates step up their criminal activity by killing a guard employed to protect World Food Program shipping, as set out here : A WFP-...

Sunday Ship History: International Ice Patrol

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Yesterday, May 19th, marked the 95th anniversary of the founding of the North Atlantic Ice Patrol, founded in 1912. The precipitating event...
Saturday, May 19, 2007

Armed Forces Day

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May 19, 2007: Armed Forces Day : President Harry S. Truman led the effort to establish a single holiday for citizens to come together and t...
Friday, May 18, 2007

In case you haven't been mad at the UN lately

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Read this .

Puntland releases mislabeled "Finnish" fishermen

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Seems those allegedly "Finnish" fishermen (see here ) captured by Puntland were mostly Yemeni, as set here , and now they'v be...

Latest ICC CCS Piracy Report (to 15 May 07)

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Latest ICC Commercial Crime Services Piracy Report (to 15 May 07) is found here . Highlights include lots of thefts at anchorages and this: ...

USMC Commandant Brief

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Saw this on C-Span. Well worth a read: DefenseLink News Transcript: DoD News Briefing with Gen. Conway from the Pentagon You can watch the C...

Ah, mediation!

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So many snakes... so little time.

India reacts to Tamil Tiger "Flying Corps"

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Reported as Flying LTTE Tigers Help Spur India's Aerostat Radar Buy from Israel : In spite of an interview in which Air Chief Fali Homi ...

Maldivian Coast Guard sinks 'LTTE' vessel

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Reported here : A trawler which the Maldivian Coast Guard sunk on Thursday, on suspicion that it was an LTTE gun-runner, was registered in K...

Friday Reads

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It's Friday! And that may mean open line for Rush Limbaugh, but it also means that a couple of Navy guys push a little history at you. F...
Thursday, May 17, 2007

Stark attack remembered

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By Lex at Twenty years ago today

Civil Air Patrol and Coast Guard Auxiliary to do joint operations

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Reported here , an example of synergy between two auxiliary forces: Civil Air Patrol's Raleigh-Wake Composite Squadron and members of th...

Navy training goes Hollywood

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Reported as Setting the stage for survival at sea : Looming several stories high and stretching more than 200 feet, the Navy's newest ...

Nuclear shipping fleet gets new ship- with guns?

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Reported here : A NEW “gun boat” which will ship radioactive materials from Sellafield has been launched amid pomp and ceremony in Japan. Th...