Piracy and Terrorism

SEA GUARDIAN Threat & Risk Assessment 20 – 30 May 2025

THREAT & RISK ASSESSMENT BRIEF UPDATE ​

​​ Brief Update No 25/12 Date: 30 May 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 Operations (UKMTO), respective Web Pages and products retrofit the company’s Strategic / Operational and Security situational...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2025/05/30/sea-guardian-threat-risk-assessment-20-30-may-2025/

SEA GUARDIAN Threat & Risk Assessment 01 – 20 May 2025

John (Ioannis) Pavlopoulos, President Sea Guardian SG Ltd., Vice Admiral (ret.) H.N. , Honorary Commander in Chief of the Hellenic Fleet , Former Military Representative of Greece to the NATO and EU 

THREAT & RISK ASSESSMENT BRIEF UPDATE ​

​​ Brief Update No 25/2025 Date: 22 May 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...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2025/05/22/sea-guardian-threat-risk-assessment-01-20-may-2025/

DEFEA 2025:A Landmark Moment for Global Defence Cooperation

Over three dynamic days DEFEA reaffirmed its role as a premier hub for international defence and security, bringing together 436 exhibitors from 37 countries and 106 official delegations from 45 nations under one roof.

The 2025 edition set a new benchmark, showcasing the latest technological advancements across all domains—land, sea, air, space, and cyber—and highlighting Greece’s strategic position within NATO and Europe. With high-level meetings, landmark agreements, and hundreds of B2B...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2025/05/21/defea-2025a-landmark-moment-for-global-defence-cooperation/

Death of Diplomacy – part 5

Thank you all for your comments on our last and today we will try to draw some interesting parallels to open your appetite / interest so we all try and create peace on Planet Ocean…

Shipbroking and in particular Ship Sale & Purchase is at the end of the day very much like Diplomacy, particularly in sorting out any dispute between two parties – or two or more nations.

In Ship Sale & Purchase, buyer and seller have to perform the Agreement, the MOA, which has been drawn up / construed after both...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2025/05/18/death-of-diplomacy-part-5/

Comment: MSC ANTONIA GPS jamming incident / Steve Bomgardner & Pole Star Global

Satellite imagery of MSC ANTONIA operating in the Red Sea on 2025-05-10 at 08:04:14. Image credit: Pole Star Global

It has been reported recently that an MSC container vessel, MSC ANTONIA, has run aground around 100 nautical miles (nm) off the coast of Jeddah, in Saudi Arabia due to a GPS jamming incident. See here in Riviera Maritime for reference.

In response to this developing story, Captain Steve Bomgardner, Vice President of Shipping and Offshore at Pole Star Global, offers the following...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2025/05/15/comment-msc-antonia-gps-jamming-incident-steve-bomgardner-pole-star-global/

Death of Diplomacy – part 4

Further to our last back on the 8th of April , we are now entering the dire straits…

Here we go:

Alongside the Death of Diplomacy – and to an extent, of elements of Democracy – has come the birth of, let us call it, drone-ocracy. Stealthily-launched drones are a deadly nightmare in the great and small theatres of war, making a mockery of supposed ceasefires. Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan and now Kashmir are among victim-territories of this ghastly modern form of weaponry, often supporting substantial...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2025/05/11/death-of-diplomacy-part-4/

“The Strategy of Battle”…

…Possibly (?) is transformed to “A race of Strategy and Luck”

by Commodore (HN Rt) Kostas Papachristodoulou (pictured above).

International and National institutions in order to create a concept for translating the pursuit of power formulated a Geo-politic concept which will explain how powers is going to pursue or how they translate the alliances and conflicts in the global with uncovered or covered initiatives. Strategic and Economic pursuits tend to represent this competition as a game of...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2025/05/07/the-strategy-of-battle/

Athens to host high level ‘Shaping the Future of Shipping’ Summit in June

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https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2025/05/07/athens-to-host-high-level-shaping-the-future-of-shipping-summit-in-june/

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