The pirates may think they are gaining an upper hand by killing four American citizens yesterday, but what they don’t seem to know about is the fact that the global maritime community are not taking this challenge lying low.
Vigilance can reveal that within the Action Plan to promote this year’s World Maritime Day theme – Piracy: Orchestrating the Response, a meeting took place at IMO Headquarters on 17 February 2011 between IMO Secretary-General Efthimios E. Mitropoulos and industry and seafarer representatives. All re-iterated the need for urgent and coordinated action from Governments, the shipping industry and the maritime community to address the escalating crisis of kidnap and ransom of seafarers off the coast of Somalia, in the Gulf of Aden, in the Arabian Sea and in the western Indian Ocean.
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A WEEK on from the murder of a 24 year-old man in Sydenham, detectives are continuing to appeal for witnesses to come forward.
European Space Agency’s second Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV-2) was launched by Arianespace from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Christened Johannes Kepler, in honour of the German astronomer and mathematician, the second ATV flight model will rendezvous and dock with the orbiting International Space Station in fully automatic mode after eight days of autonomous flight. The Johannes Kepler ATV will deliver experiments, equipment, spare parts and propellant as well as food and oxygen for the astronauts currently onboard the ISS.
