Piracy is an old phenomenon in our world but today it is one of the most criminal activity on international water straits.
In the last years piracy as a way of "highway-robbery" was a fast way to earn money by robbing ships, crews, passengers and a few times the loading but now somali pirate activities marked a nother way for unorganized and organized crime on sea and in international waters.
Kidnapping of ships, crews and loadings is a more dangerous reemergence with new advantages for these groups. Especially around the Horn of Africa and in the Indian Ocean region especially in the Somali Basin, criminal groups are threaten the international commercial shipping as never seen before.
To offer shipping companies a solution for a better protection of their ships in 2004 our company has analyzed and evaluated incidents who are marked as pirates activities.
In 2006 we offered our new counter-piracy-program to German and foreign shipping companies.
After an excessive increase of piracy in 2008 in international waters especially in the Gulf of Aden and in 2009 as well in the Indian Ocean region, combined with increasing requests to our company for effective protection of vessels, crews and loadings, i.b.s.® deploys its own MRU Maritime Response Unit.
The Team of our MRU are former Member of Militäry and Police Special Units and have many years of experience in water-born-operations, anti-crime and anti-terrorism operations. They fullfill their duty on board in permanent contact with the Master, SSO and Shipcrew so a high profile safety for your vessels, crews and loads will be warranted.
Unnecessary activities will be also avoided as well imperiling campaigns. Base for i.b.s. protection teams are the use of non-lethal and lethal equipment whereas the use of non-lethal equipment would be one of first options any time.
In addition to our on-board services we offer our clients
- breefings refer to actual piracy activities
- counter-piracy-training for vessel crews
- alert-, communication- as well bridge- and reactions plans for each protected vessel
- communication support to vessels crew during running piracy-incidents
(CTF's, MARLO und UKMTO)
- own 24 hour back office during running protection operations
- support to the company management by kidnap and ransom scenarios
Are you ship owner or Managing Director of a shipping company and if you realized piracy as a threat against your crews, ships and loadings and in addition as a threat against yours company future, please do not hesitate to contact us for a personal conversation where we could present you our counter-piracy-program and its possibilities.