Homeland Security News

By Joe DeCapua, Voice of America
Despite the international naval presence off the coast of Somalia, full protection against pirates cannot be given to all the tankers and cargo ships sailing in the Gulf of Aden. However, there’s an alternative being offered that does not involved the use of warships. A company called Anti-Piracy Maritime [...]

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From press release of Cambridge Consultants:

The latest piracy statistics released by the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) Piracy Reporting Centre (PRC) point to a significant increase in attacks by pirates in the first nine months of 2008. According to a PRC press release, reported acts of piracy committed up to late October 2008 have included 115 [...]

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LNG/LPG (Liquefied Natural Gas / Liquefied Petroleum Gas) infrastructure security is a fast growing market with demand eclipsing the maritime security market; driven by increased global demand for LNG/LPG, and the fact that one LNG/LPG tanker if detonated would cause a blast similar in size to that of a tactical nuclear weapon.

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Satlynx, a subsidiary of GE and provider of two-way satellite broadband communication services, announced extension of a range of its Maritime VSAT services across wide portfolio of platforms including SCPC, and shared and dedicated TDMA hubs. Based on different satellites operating at Ku, extended-Ku and C-band frequencies, footprints are extensive across the Europe, [...]

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Department of Homeland Security is testing buoy sensor grid technology as a part of its Small Vessel Security Program. The buoys are connected into grid with nodes 20 miles apart from each other and anchored within 200 miles offshore. The “sonobuoys” detect signals made by vessels and passes information to the basestation. Information is analyzed [...]

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Chakib Khelil, OPEC’s president, delivered on Monday a gloomy forecast: economic factors could drive oil to $200. Terrorist attack of the oil tanker at one of the oil shipping choke points may put world to the brink of economic crisis. A handful of oil choke points are of strategic importance for the global energy [...]

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