Robbery, piracy threats growing
Indonesia would need a fleet of 300 ships simultaneously at sea to adequately monitor its archipelago against maritime crime, said one speaker at the Pacific 2015 International Maritime Exposition in Sydney.
Peter Chalk of the RAND Corporation shared this startling fact as part of a presentation at the expo’s Sea Power conference schedule and stated there have been an average of 28 armed maritime crime incidents worldwide per month since 2010.
Last year there were 245 crimes or attempted crimes, a dip of 7% from the previous year. ‘The concentration of attacks is shifting to Southeast Asia,’ he declared, with
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