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Dutch marines from Hr. Ms. Tromp abseiling on to Germancargo ship Taipan, off the coast of Somalia on 5 April 2010after pirates took the ship.Photo: AFP22 beacon / MARCH 2011
LossBypreventionDefence against pirate attackJens Michael PriessAssistant Vice President, Lawyer, <strong>Skuld</strong> Hamburgjens.michael.priess@skuld.comUse of armed guards is controversial and illegal in some jurisdictions.Photo: AFPCitadels andarmed guardsPiracy, in particular off Somalia, increasingly dominates international headlines and affects anever-increasing area. On 16 December 2010, the Joint War Committee of the Lloyd’s MarketAssociation extended their ‘listed areas’ by adding the Indian Ocean, Arabian Sea, Gulf of Aden,Gulf of Oman, Southern Red Sea and the waters enclosed by these boundaries. To the northwest,this area ends with the Red Sea, south of latitude 15° N; west of the Gulf of Oman by longitude58° E; east by longitude 78° E and south by latitude 12° S.The modus operandi of pirates is changing with greater use of motherships and operations ever further away from the coast. They havesteadily extended their area of operation well into the Indian Ocean(as close as 220 nm off the coast of India) and far south into the SomaliBasin east of the borders of Mozambique and Tanzania, as well astowards Madagascar and the Seychelles. Given the sheer size of thearea affected, as well as the amount of traffic concerned (in particularin areas like the Gulf of Aden), it is obvious that international navalbeacon / MARCH 2011 23
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