Monday, June 22, 2009

An Insurance Company Report on Pirates

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Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty on sea piracy : Currently many vessels are insured for piracy as part of their standard ‘hul...
Sunday, June 21, 2009

Sunday Ship History: Books

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Some, perhaps belated, Father's Day book recommendations related to nautical matters: Samuel Eliot Morison, The Two-Ocean War : A shorte...
Saturday, June 20, 2009

Somali Pirates: Recent Reports of Attacks

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From the NATO Shipping Center ATTEMPTED PIRACY ATTACK ON 18 JUNE : A. VESSEL PARTCULARS/DETAILS: 1. NAME OF SHIP: KANG LONG 2. FLAG: HONG K...

Shipping - Economic Indicator

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In a post from December 2008, here , I noted an expert reporting the decline in shipping as an economic predictor that boded ill for 2009, ...
Friday, June 19, 2009

Somali Pirate Loot? Phishing for Fools

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A Somali Pirate-themed variation on the "Nigerian emails" sent along by reader Paul (whose other identification is being withheld...

North Korea: U.S. Tracking Weapons Ship and Setting Up Missile Defense

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The Democratic Peoples Republic of North Korea is testing the waters of international sanctions as it sends forth a possible weapons carryin...
Thursday, June 18, 2009

"No to arming merchant crew" - Maritime Safety Committee

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International Maritime Organization's Maritime Safety Committee "Revised guidance on combating piracy and armed robbery against sh...
Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Somali Pirates: NATO Will Come Back for More

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After the expected two month monsoon slowdown in Somali piracy, NATO will come back to the seas off Somalia, as reported here , in a commitm...
Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Tuesday Reading

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Fred Fry's Maritime Monday 166 with photos of indoor ship berths for cargo offloads/onloads in bad weather areas, I suppose. And a whol...

You could work in an office . . . or not

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Anything worth doing is worth doing to the "ultimate" and the NMLBS Surfman Program can get you to the top: Surfmen are trusted t...
Monday, June 15, 2009

Somali Pirates: Going for Calmer Seas

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The Somali pirates appear to be seeking calmer waters, both in the weather sense and in the sense of areas where merchant shipping has not b...

Good Answer: "What would you tell the parents...."

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The Commandant of the Marines talks about the Future of Marine Corps Operations . Worth watching for that, of course, but the last question ...
Sunday, June 14, 2009

Sunday Ship History: Airports at Sea

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While the commercial potential of aircraft travel across wide oceans first was being explored, a few visionaries, aware of the constraints p...
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Friday, June 12, 2009

Somali Pirates: Shift Area of Operations, Grab a Ship

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Shifting their area of operations again, Somali pirates have nabbed a ship off Oman, as reported in Pirates hijack German-owned ship off Oma...

Friday Reading

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CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday in which war gets fought with the aircraft you have. Steeljaw Scribe remembers Liberty . See also here . Al...

Somali Pirates: View of the Attacked

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About a month ago, the crew of the tanker Dubai Princess fought off an attack by Somali pirates. As set out here , the ship's captain,t...