Focus on Maritime Security
MARITIME SECURITY WEEK
This week, we review five recently completed maritime security vessels in two continents, namely, Australia and Europe. A police boat enters Australian federal service, hybrid patrol vessels commence operational sailings in one of Belgium’s major ports, and three new surface combatants are handed over to the Polish and Russian Navies.
Assault Craft • Interceptors • Patrol • Police • Coast Guard • Naval
Also featured is a new intelligence-gathering ship that will sail under the Swedish flag. The vessel is notable for being larger and more capable than the ship it will replace as well as for being the product of a multi-national cooperation with the Polish government. This ship will operate primarily in the Baltic Sea.
Keep visiting Baird Maritime for the latest news, vessel reviews, and other developments in the ever-important global maritime security sector.
Vessel Reviews:
- AFP10 – Australian Federal Police acquires locally-built patrol RIB
- POA 1 & POA 2 – Hybrid patrol boats to serve Belgium’s Port of Antwerp-Bruges
- Merkury – Russian Navy corvette optimised for littoral warfare
- Mewa & Albatros – New mine countermeasures vessels delivered to Polish Navy
- Artemis – Swedish Royal Navy places new intelligence ship into service
- Colne Leader – UK’s Brightlingsea Harbour welcomes pilot/patrol launch
- Ranger – Compact patrol and rescue catamaran for New Zealand Police
- Rio Sil – Fisheries patrol boat quartet for Spain’s Guardia Civil police force
- Spanish Navy acquires ROV for submarine rescue missions
Features and Opinion:
COLUMN | Sanction-busting “dark ships”: anarchy at sea? [Naval Gazing]
– “It is therefore unsurprising that international sanctions against the export of oil from Russia and Iran have spawned a vast network of operations by cheaply acquired, overage, inadequately manned, and frequently decrepit tankers.”
– by Trevor Hollingsbee, former UK Royal Navy officer and Baird Maritime‘s resident maritime security expert and columnist
OPINION | The Quad needs to talk security for subsea cables
– “The world will increasingly struggle to balance open standards for data sharing in support of democratic systems with the rise of extravagant claims to digital sovereignty.”
– by Aishwarya Acharya, Research Intern at the Centre for Air Power Studies, New Delhi
News and Gear:
- Maritime Security Vessel News Roundup | May 26 – Destroyers, a frigate and new surveillance ships for the US Navy
- Russia claims intelligence ship targeted by drone attack in Black Sea
- Maritime Security Vessel News Roundup | May 19 – Russian and Qatari corvettes plus US Navy and Coast Guard surface vessels
- Norwegian naval officer found guilty of negligence in 2018 warship sinking
- UK shipyard investigating possible sabotage on Royal Navy frigate under construction
- Maritime Security Vessel News Roundup | May 12 – Israeli AUV, Falklands fisheries patrol boat and more
- Singapore ferry evacuated following engine room fire
Recent Important Features:
OPINION | The cost of crime and corruption on Pacific fisheries
– “Advancements in monitoring technology, law enforcement training, and testing capabilities on landed catches will all limit the opportunity for IUU fishing to go unnoticed.”
– by Dr Jade Lindley, criminologist based at The University of Western Australia Law School and Oceans Institute
– “So far in 2023, organised crime groups have reaped fortunes by facilitating the passage of about 45,000 IMs by inflatable craft – or usually decrepit wooden vessels – with the prime IM crossing season yet to begin.”
– by Trevor Hollingsbee, former UK Royal Navy officer and Baird Maritime‘s resident maritime security expert and columnist
OPINION | How Japan could quickly build up its submarine force
– “Converting a submarine for training every few years involves removing combat equipment, much reducing Japan’s warfighting capability.”
– by Bradley Perrett, defence and aerospace journalist
Remember to come back every day to see the latest news, opinion and vessel reviews!
Call for content!
Any news or views about the global maritime security sectors? Send it through to [email protected] ASAP (between now and May 26), so we can add it to this current edition of Maritime Security Week!
We are after:
- Vessels – Orders, new deliveries, under construction
- Gear – Latest innovations and technology in the maritime security vessel sector
- Interviews – Owners, operators, water police, navies, coast guards etc.
- Reminiscences – Do you have any exciting, amusing or downright dangerous anecdotes from your time in the maritime security world? (example here)
- Other – Any other relevant news
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