Brief Update No 25/05 Date: 21 Feb 2025
STATEMENT
This document has been approved for distribution by Sea Guardian S.G. Ltd / Operations Department. The provided Intel and information derive from open sources, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), the Joint Maritime Information Center (JMIC) and United Kingdom Maritime Trade...
https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2025/02/21/sea-guardian-threat-risk-assessment-14-feb-21-feb-2025/
Brussels, Belgium, February 10, 2025 – The close collaboration between ocean carriers, customs authorities, law enforcement and regulators have led to successes in disrupting drug trafficking through containerized shipping. To build on this momentum, the World Shipping Council (WSC) convened its first-ever “Technology Day” at the World Customs Organization (WCO) headquarters in Brussels on January 30-31, 2025. This milestone event reinforced the deepening cooperation between industry...
UNDERSTANDING STCW
DNV’s Maritime Academy Hellas is offering on18 and 19 February 2025, a course on the International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers (STCW).
Content
Within this course the background and general goals of the STCW Convention and Code are presented in detail. The aim of STCW is to ensure that seafarers trained and certified under its regime can meet the challenges that the shipping industry will be facing in the future. Course...
https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2025/02/05/dnvs-maritime-academy-course-understanding-stcw/
Recognising that cyber incidents on vessels can have a direct and detrimental impact on life, property, and the environment, IACS has steadily increased its focus on the reliability and functional effectiveness of onboard, safety-critical, computer-based systems.
IACS identified at an early stage that, for ships to be resilient against cyber incidents, all parts of the industry needed to be actively involved, and so convened a Joint Working Group (JWG) on Cyber Systems which helped identify best...
https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2022/04/21/iacs-adopts-new-requirements-on-cyber-safety/
Last month the Felicity Ace caught fire in the mid-Atlantic and had to be abandoned. The cargo ship was carrying over 4,000 luxury cars, including Porsche, Audi, Bentley and Lamborghini models, which insurers estimated to be worth £295 million. It was adrift somewhere south of the Azores for some weeks, assumed to be still burning, before it finally sank. The hazardous lithium-ion batteries, oil and gas contained onboard now sit on the ocean floor.
Felicity Ace reached mainstream news but it is...
City watchdog gets tougher on potential crypto fraudsters as it highlights the high cost of financial scams
The FCA has released data on their work to tackle consumer harm in the investment market: https://...
Piracy has decreased in 2021 but the threat remains
According to the annual piracy report published recently by the ICC International Maritime Bureau (IMB), piracy and armed robbery at sea last year has reached an all-time low since 1994. But the threat remains.
The report shows that in 2021, the IMB Piracy Reporting Centre recorded a total of 132 incidents against ships. Out of these, 115 vessels were boarded, 11 were attempted attacks, 5 vessels were fired upon and 1 vessel was hijacked.
“The...
https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2022/02/01/piracy-has-decreased-in-2021-but-the-threat-remains/
The Top Challenges in Anti-Money Laundering and Sanctions Compliance in 2021 and Beyond
We are pleased to announce that Norton Rose Fulbright have just released their 2021 Global Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Sanctions Compliance Survey.
Sven Stumbauer Global Anti-Money Laundering and Sanctions Compliance Consulting Leader and Senior Advisor, says:
“I am pleased to say that this year we had nearly 400 respondents from 77 jurisdictions participate in our survey. Our results highlight the ongoing...
Elcome Announces New Virus Protection Tool for Ships’ Navigation Computers
DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – Sept 7, 2021 – Elcome International, one of the world’s largest distributors of nautical charts and publications, has created a new secure tool to prevent viruses, malware or corrupted files from being introduced into ships’ navigational computers.
Elcome Bridge Protect provides a simple and cost-efficient method of ensuring safe...
It’s full steam ahead for cyber crime unless the shipping industry and the authorities can keep it in check
The steady and continuing increase in cyber piracy and the large scale measures needed to resist it have become a major concern for international shipping. More than ever, owners, operators and charterers have to focus on the motives, methods and targets of hackers; the vulnerability of computer systems; the legal concerns of charterers and other parties; the counter measures...