Friday, April 18, 2008

Iran: Supplying Gaza with Weapons from the Sea?

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Iran appears to be running a weapon smuggling operation into Gaza using the old ploy of dropping waterproof containers from ships, according...
Thursday, April 17, 2008

Iran's Army Day Air Show

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Two hundred aircraft were shown it is claimed. Also, Ahmadinejad says Iran is the "Iran is the most powerful and independent nation in ...
Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Psst... got a deal for you -- need a "Mobile Coastal Defence System?"

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Find a need and fill it, I always say. And some enterprising groups seems to see a need for a Mobile Coastal Defence System . Might meet you...

This will fill freight forwarders with confidence

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allAfrica.com: Nigeria: Shady Deals Bane of Freight Forwarding Prince John Okechukwu Emeka, in his key note address said, "the practice...

Attacks on ships increase in some areas, not in others

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Here's the headline from the International Herald Tribune : Global pirate attacks increase . The headline is inaccurate. Pirate attacks ...

Sea Piracy: France calls for international action vs piracy off Somalia

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Flush with success in getting its hostages back from the small group of Somali pirates holding them, France now suggests international actio...
Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Latest ICC CCS Piracy Report (to 14 April 08)

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The latest ICC Commercial Crime Services (to 14 Apr 08) is here . Highlights: -13.04.2008: 0205 LT: 03:13N – 105:26E, Off Pulau Mangkai, Ind...

Totten on Iraq’s Meanest City

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Must read: Hope for Iraq’s Meanest City by Michael J. Totten, City Journal Spring 2008 .

Somali Pirates

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NY Times "The Lede" blog does the Somali pirates and some others in Pirate Whack-a-Mole on the High Seas . Comments are fun, too. ...
Monday, April 14, 2008

Sure, it's always like this at sea...

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Sailors assigned to the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) enjoy a clear night from the bow of the ship during a pau...

Making History the Hard Way

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Probably not the opening paragraph foreseen by the developers of the Gwadar Port when they started work, but what they got here : And the po...

What Cooperation Brings: "Malacca Straits pirate-free last year due to joint patrols"

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The Straits of Malacca, notorious pirate grounds, set a record last year - they were "pirate-free" The strategic Malacca Straits w...

Monday Reading

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Xformed's Monday Maritime Matters featuring VADM Aaron Merrill and the ship that bore his name. Fred Fry's Maritime Monday 106 ove...

Canada gets tough with anti-sealing"pirates"

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Canada apparently has had enough of the self-righteous Sea Shepherds and their self-proclaimed "lawless" ways, a demonstrated here...
Sunday, April 13, 2008

Sunday Ship History: Swimming Trucks

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It's WWII. You load a ship with all kinds of goods needed by troops to fight a war and you send that ship off to some remote location wh...
Saturday, April 12, 2008

Gasoline Prices

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From www.chartoftheday.com Today, the price of a barrel of crude oil closed just shy of the $110 level as geopolitical tensions continue and...
Friday, April 11, 2008

French grab Somali pirates - after cruise yacht hostages freed

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with a big hat tip to Galrahn , who caught this while I was otherwise occupied, reported as French commandos swoop after pirates free hosta...

Persian Gulf: Warning Flare

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It was not, apparently, as some sources have it, warning shots (see here ), but rather a "warning flare" - reported here A Navy pa...

Somalia: Pirates Release Yacht Hostages

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Somali pirates release cruise yacht hostages, as reported here : The 30 hostages held on a tourist yacht by pirates off the coast of Somalia...
Thursday, April 10, 2008

Short Sea Shipping: Using Ships to Ease Highway Strain

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The Baltimore Sun suggests a way around highway shipping woes - by using ships in "Put ship in shipping" : When it comes to tran...