HOW TO STOP PIRATES PLAGUING WEST AFRICA

04 JULY 2019 Remember those Somali pirates? Earlier this decade, they brazenly hijacked giant oil tankers, demanded ransoms in the millions of dollars, and gave Tom Hanks yet another chance to play the everyman overcoming a life-defining crisis. Now, thanks to a multinational naval crackdown and tighter security measures by …

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SEA-WATCH CAPTAIN FREE

03 JULY 2019 Carola Rackete, the 31-year-old captain of the Sea-Watch 3, has been released from custody. She was arrested on Saturday after her vessel made contact with a police boat and docked in Lampedusa, Italy, with 41 African migrants on board. Italian judge Alessandra Vella ruled on Tuesday that Rackete had …

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IMO LAUNCHES WOMEN IN MARITIME VIDEO

02 JULY 2019 The IMO has produced a new film to showcase its Women in Maritime program. The program, initiated in 1988, supports the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. The program supports the participation of women in both shore-based and …

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