Safety and Security

Portsmouth, N.H., based Juliet Marine Systems, Inc., (JMS), a privately funded company, today announced plans to select a weapons integrator for GHOST, a high-speed attack craft specifically designed by JMS to protect waterways like the Straits of Hormuz and to counter threats such as piracy.According to JMS, GHOST "uses sup ...

NATO is warning that the M/V LIQUID VELVET, a Marshall Islands flagged, Greek owned chemical tanker, may be being used as a pirate mothership.  It was last reported making way 120 nm off the coast of Somalia in vicinity of 10 22N 058 33E.  The vessel was pirated on October 31, 2011, and neither the vessel or crew have been released from pirate contro ...

In two months, the great, the good and the not-so-great-or-good will gather at the annual three-day jamboree of the Connecticut Maritime Association (CMA).  One of the hardy perennial topics is sure to be “the image of shipping."Although the present ec ...

The U.S. Navy has rescued the crew of an Iranian fishing vessel that had been used as a pirate mother ship and has detained 15 suspected pirates.At approximately 12:30 p.m, January 5, an SH-60S Seahawk from the guided-missile destroyer USS Kidd (DDG 100) detected a suspected pirate skiff alongside the Iranian-flagged fishing dhow Al Molai. Simultaneously, a dist ...

In its recently published annual analysis Reflections 2012, The Baltic and International Maritime Council (BIMCO) examines the critical issues facing the shipping industry now and in the coming year. In the analysis, BIMCO emphasizes the need for regulation to be maintained on a global basis, and calls for p ...

After taking office January  1, new IMO Secretary-General Koji Sekimizu is making a number of changes in the structure of the IMO Secretariat.Sekimizu said: "The biggest challenge I see in the coming years, in terms of management of the Organization, is how to improve the 'delivery mecha ...

The Justice Department announced today that Maersk Line Limited, Norfolk, VA, has agreed to pay the government $31.9 million to resolve allegations that it submitted false claims to the United States in connection with contracts to transport cargo in shipping containers to support U.S. troops in Afghanistan an ...

The Coast Guard has announced the publication of a policy letter that exempts a number of mariners from the requirement to obtain a Transportation Worker Identification Credential when renewing or obtaining a Coast Guard-issued merchant mariner credential.The policy letter provides immediate relief for mariners who otherwise would need to obtain a TWIC to get or rene ...