Wednesday March 31, 2010

I've Been Thinking:

The African Star, a ZIM lines freighter, was attacked by pirates.

ZIM is an Israeli company.

On board the freighter, in addition to cargo, were trained, armed, security personnel.

In response to the surge in piracy, many shipping companies have started hiring security teams and many of those teams were originally trained in Israel.

Many companies does not mean all companies, so the seas are still rich pirates.

With the situation on the high seas at a crisis level owners have started to take charge. In hiring experienced security teams the owners hope to scare off the pirates. When the pirates attempt to capture the vessel they are repelled by the small gun fire of the security team.

That is what happened on the African Star.

Pirates won't learn their lesson, but maybe other shipping, freight and cruise company owners will learn theirs.

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