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Maritime / Anti-Piracy
Security Program
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The Problem...
Indonesia...An unidentified log
carrier was boarded 8 Nov at 0450 local time by seven persons armed
with knives and iron bars. Duty seaman taken hostage...
Germany...A Cyprus-flag timber
carrier was targeted 5 Nov by about 40 Greenpeace activists who
attempted to obstruct discharge operations. The ship was carrying
timber from the Congo region...
Piracy is "...an act of boarding or attempting to
board any ship with the apparent intent to commit theft or any other
crime and with the apparent intent or capability to use force in the
furtherance of that act".
The number of reported piracy attacks world-wide
for 1999 rose to 285, an increase of 40% compared with 1998 figures and
almost tripled with 1991 according to the ICC International Maritime
Bureau in London. The threat is real...
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