by Barista Uno | Feb 9, 2011 | Piracy and Security
BIMCO, the International Chamber of Shipping, INTERCARGO, INTERTANKO and the International Transport Workers’ Federation were one in condemning last week the execution of a seafarer by Somali pirates who had hijacked the
Beluga Nomination in the Indian Ocean 390 nautical miles north of the Seychelles. This was plain murder, but what did people expect? Even the pirates of old were brutish; they killed, tortured and even sodomized their captives. And as we’ve been saying all along, this is war and the first casualty of war is humaneness.
(more…) by Barista Uno | Jan 27, 2011 | Piracy and Security
The international shipping community is loudly cheering the recent rescues of the hijacked chemical tankers Samho Jewelry and Bunga Laurel. We’re glad as well, but we’re not about to hyperventilate. The successful commando operations are small triumphs in the protracted war on piracy. The problem is that more people may now look upon the use of force as the best – and even the only – way to deal with the Great Plague. Unfortunately, BIMCO and three other shipping associations do little to counter this gung-ho attitude in their joint press release, which we reproduce here in full. ~Barista Uno (more…)
