BOOK REVIEW | Maritime Security: A Comprehensive Guide for Shipowners, Seafarers and Administrators (Second Edition)

This is a very timely, useful and easy to use guide to an increasingly important subject for mariners. While most flag states, port states, coastguards, police and navies strive mightily to suppress maritime crime, there is increasing evidence that they are struggling.

Therefore, those who own, operate or man vessels must know how to be prepared for instances of crime and be able to avoid, prevent or repel it. This very detailed and comprehensive yet simple guide offers many proven solutions and sensible ideas as to how to legally do just that.

Compiled on behalf of the International Chamber of Shipping, the book comprises step-by-step plans for countering every imaginable aspect of maritime crime. These are supported by a first rate and very brief check list of what to do in the event of an impending emergency.

Obviously, the book should be in every ship’s bridge bookshelf as well as in owner and administrator’s libraries. It should also be frequently studied.

Available from the Witherby Publishing Group, Livingstone, Scotland.

Web: www.witherbys.com