Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Somalia: Potshots at Pirates

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Reported here : The U.S. Navy has fired on Somali pirates who hijacked the Russian crew and British captain of a ship sailing off the Horn o...
Sunday, February 10, 2008

Sunday Ship History: U.S. Navy in Africa

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These days, the news is about the U.S. Navy's Africa Partnership Station Africa is the subject of renewed strategic focus for the United...
Saturday, February 09, 2008

Ethanol May Add to Global Warming

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Study: Ethanol May Add to Global Warming : The widespread use of ethanol from corn could result in nearly twice the greenhouse gas emissions...

Weekend Reading

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The on-going dsicussion among Navy types of whether quality or quantity should govern with input from Steeljaw Scribe at Flightdeck Friday: ...
Friday, February 08, 2008

Anchoring on the Internet

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Good explanation of what happens when anchors land on internet cables and how the internet feeds conspiracy theories at The Economist Of ca...

Australia-Indonesia security agreement

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New security deal between Australia and Indonesia reported here : A new security pact between Australia and Indonesia came into force Thursd...

Shipping Container Security: Resistance Movement

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The politics of container security reported here : Atlanta-based Home Depot and fellow "big box" chain stores have targeted donati...
Wednesday, February 06, 2008

Infrastructure: Saving money by shipping using ... barges and tugs and ships

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Here's thought-provoking quote: "Anything that drives up the [shipping] cost is a problem" for the price of products — all pro...

Somalia: "We are Not Pirates"

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Reported as We are Not Pirates, Say Ship Hijackers . Despite the fact that they have seized a tug meant for operations off the Russian coast...

Somalia: Danes pick up food ship escort job

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Reported as Danes escort mercy ships : The Danish navy has taken over the task of escorting mercy ships to war-ravaged Somalia. The ships ca...
Tuesday, February 05, 2008

Port Security: Undersea Tech

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As reported here A surveillance system will be installed in the Piscataqua River this summer to protect the Port of New Hampshire from terr...
Monday, February 04, 2008

Monday Reading

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Martime Monday 96 is up at Fred Fry International with a crane ship on the beach and much more. Fred is wrong, though, I did get Sunday Shi...

Somali Pirates: Take tug off Somalia coast

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Reported here : Pirates captured the Svitzer Korsakov tugboat off the Somali coast with four Russians and two British nationals aboard. The ...
Sunday, February 03, 2008

Sunday Ship History: Putting Radar on Ships

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It's 9pm on September 8, 1923 and a U.S. Navy destroyer squadron is at sea off Honda Point, California: Just over twelve hours earlier ...
Friday, February 01, 2008

The Kosovo Dance

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Nine years into the Kosovo mess, the "exit strategy" is still unclear, and our compelling national interest (unclear when we got i...
Thursday, January 31, 2008

Time to do some planning: What happens if Yemen collapses?

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Jane points the way to a learned article suggesting that it may be time to contemplate what happens if Yemen, which sit right on a couple of...
Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Latest ONI Worldwide Threat to Shipping Report (to 23 Jan 08)

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The latest Worldwide Threat to Shipping Report is found here . Highlights: 2. INDONESIA: The Indonesian government has agreed to install s...
Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Worth Reading

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I'm a day late, but don't miss Fred Fry International: Maritime Monday 95 , where Fred weekly covers the waterfront of maritime news...

Arabian Sea: Canadian Navy Busts Running Rum-Runners

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Reported here , a report of a coalition navy in action: Canadian sailors patrolling the Arabian Sea in the war on terrorism ended up this we...

Somalia: Relief News

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According to ReliefWeb, here In the light of the expected continued deterioration of the food security situation in Somalia, WFP needs an ad...