Cruise Ship and Tanker Collide in Turkey’s Dardanelles Strait Source: http://gcaptain.com/celestyal-crystal-cruise-ship-and-tanker-collide-in-turkey A Celestyal cruise ship was involved in a collision with a tanker carrying flammable naphtha early Saturday morning in the Dardanelles strait near Gallipoli, Turkey….
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Source:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/12128328/Isil-wants-its-own-navy-for-attacks-in-the-Mediterranean.html Islamic State militants hope to build a maritime arm that could carry out attacks in the Mediterranean, a senior Nato Naval officer has warned. The march of Islamic State in Iraq and Levant (Isil)…
Police in the Maldives said they were seeking help from the United States and Australia in the investigation into a blast on Monday on President Yameen Abdul Gayoom’s speedboat as he returned home after performing…
EU Naval Force Operation Commander warned a room full of shipping executives that while Somali piracy in the Indian Ocean and Gulf of Aden is down, there is no room for complacency regarding the on-going…
Extract from the SMALL VESSEL SECURITY STRATEGY document published by the Department of Homeland Security APRIL 2008 There are numerous examples overseas of the use of small vessels as a waterborne improvised explosive device (WBIED) to attack maritime…
The following article from Hull University Centre for Security Studies has been posted: All rights are reserved by the copyright holders: Link to Download Document Extract: The experience of coalition troops in Iraq and Afghanistan has…
The followings is a list of WBIED attacks: In August 2005, Turkish authorities arrested Louai Sakka, a senior al-Qaeda operative when a one-ton bomb he designed detonated prematurely. Sakka had intended to place the bomb…