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Too many ships do not make aught in order to prevent attack it of the pirates
It emphasizes the International Maritime Organization, than prompt the full respect of the deterrent measures
February 15, 2011
Lacked the full respect the measures in order to prevent attacks it of the pirates previewed from the Maritime lines guides of the International Organization (IMO) determines a meaningful increase of the risk that the ships are assaulted by the pirates. It emphasizes the IMO in a letter sent to all the members of the association, to the United Nations and the governmental and not governmental organizations, in which it evidences that the naval forces employees in waters to the wide one of the Somalia in order to contrast piracy report that a number excessive elevated of ships in the Gulf of Aden I am in transit not enrolled near the Maritime Security Centre - Horn of Africa (MSC-HOA), the center instituted from EU NAVFOR for the monitoring of the ships that cross the Gulf of Aden, neither near the Maritime United Kingdom Trade Organisation (UKMTO) of Dubay, instituted from the Royal Navy; moreover many ships do not show visible deterrent measures to the aim to prevent attack to it neither assume actions on the base of the warnings communicated about happening of attack or the presence of ships sospette.
In the letter the IMO has exhorts "all the interested subjects, in particular the administrations, the representative organisms of the field, the associations of the marine ones, the shipowners and the companies to adopt provisions so that the commanders of the ships immancabilmente receive updated information and that all the prevention measures, evasive and defensive registered letters are put into effect totally and effectively". "Unfortunately - the IMO finds - there are alarming tests that demonstrate that, in too many cases, this council has not reached neither the navigation companies or their ships neither have had followed".
The IMO remembers that, yesterday, they are the 685 marine ones of various nationalities under seizure for the sake of racketeering on board of 30 ships captured from the pirates to the wide one of the Somalia.
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Lacked the full respect the measures in order to prevent attacks it of the pirates previewed from the Maritime lines guides of the International Organization (IMO) determines a meaningful increase of the risk that the ships are assaulted by the pirates. It emphasizes the IMO in a letter sent to all the members of the association, to the United Nations and the governmental and not governmental organizations, in which it evidences that the naval forces employees in waters to the wide one of the Somalia in order to contrast piracy report that a number excessive elevated of ships in the Gulf of Aden I am in transit not enrolled near the Maritime Security Centre - Horn of Africa (MSC-HOA), the center instituted from EU NAVFOR for the monitoring of the ships that cross the Gulf of Aden, neither near the Maritime United Kingdom Trade Organisation (UKMTO) of Dubay, instituted from the Royal Navy; moreover many ships do not show visible deterrent measures to the aim to prevent attack to it neither assume actions on the base of the warnings communicated about happening of attack or the presence of ships sospette.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
