Welcome to Maritime Security Week!

It’s everything maritime security this week and next at BairdMaritime.com as we visit all four corners of the globe to bring you the latest news, vessel reviews, features and opinion pieces covering all aspects of the global maritime security sectors.

Assault Craft • Interceptors • Patrol • Police • Coast Guard • Naval

Remember to come back every day to see the latest news, opinion and vessel reviews!

Introductions:

The maritime security sector takes off

– World awakens to the reality of increased security challenges

– by Neil Baird, co-Founder, Baird Maritime

Maritime security vessel market sees growth and innovation

– The maintenance of maritime security is being given increased priority by many governments

– by Trevor Hollingsbee, maritime security expert and columnist

Vessel Reviews:

• MA028 – 10-metre coastal patrol boat pair for New South Wales
• High-speed interceptor trio for Spain’s Guardia Civil
• Indigo – Long-range, multi-purpose security vessel was a challenging design project
• Guardian 9 and Guardian 10 – New patrol boat pair to bolster Nigeria’s offshore oil and gas protection fleet
• Australian HDPE patrol RHIB demonstrator model hits the water
• and many more…

Features and Opinion:

REMINISCENCES | The amazing adventures of HMAS Jeparit

– “The navy ratings had very good contacts in Vietnam with their friends in the conflict, and a lucrative trade in firearms developed”

– by Kent Stewart, Founder, Maritime Engineers

Maritime piracy incidents down in Q3 2019

– Overall, the 2019 incidents include 95 vessels boarded, 10 vessels fired upon, 10 attempted attacks, and four vessels hijacked

Time to rethink the concept of coastal defence?

– How the various coastal authorities are preparing for more difficult conditions along the coast

– by Allan McDougall, Chief Learning Officer, International Association of Maritime Security Professionals

INTERVIEW | Subsea Craft’s new stealthy diver delivery craft concept

– Long-range diver insertion craft is currently under construction for a 2020 demonstrator model release

China’s navy is making friends in Dili

– “The young nation, on half an island just 720 kilometres from Darwin, has asked China to help train its navy”

– by Mark Dodd, former East Timor foreign corespondent

News and Gear:

• BOOK REVIEW | Battleship HMS Royal Oak
• Russian icebreaking patrol ship Ivan Papanin launched
• Australia decommissions frigate HMAS Melbourne
• Fincantieri to build forward sections of four French Navy support ships
• Jianglong launches new patrol boat for CMSA’s Jiangsu branch
• HII launches US Coast Guard cutter Stone
• US Navy commissions littoral combat ship Indianapolis
• Naval Group starts construction of France’s first FTI frigate
• Sweden’s FMV takes delivery of first of 18 CB90 HSM boats
• First-in-series of high-speed patrol craft for Oman Coast Guard launched
• Asis Boats delivers customised coast guard RIBs to Asian operator
• Turkey kicks off indigenous submarine programme
• Remontowa launches Poland’s second Project 258 minehunter, lays keel of third
• India eyes UK design for its next aircraft carrier
• Japanese aircraft carrier Akagi found in Central Pacific
• Teledyne awarded US$178 million special operations shallow water combat submersible contract
• BOOK REVIEW | Naval Archives Vol 8
• Research ship Petrel finds Japanese aircraft carrier lost in Battle of Midway
• HHI to build three new Aegis destroyers for South Korean Navy
• BMT submits bid for Australian Army landing craft tender
• US Navy christens ESB Miguel Keith
• University of Maine unveils patrol boat built using 3D printer
• US Navy’s 14th San Antonio-class LPD to be named USS Harrisburg
• Robert Allan Ltd design selected for new Bangladesh Navy firefighting boats

Recent Important Features:

China upgrading its amphibious warfare fleet

– Late September 2019 saw the launch of a 40,000-tonne, 235-metre Type 075 landing helicopter dock (LHD) for the PLAN

– by Trevor Hollingsbee, maritime security expert and columnist

Indonesia’s maritime strategy: what’s been achieved?

– Indonesia seeks to secure its wider maritime interests by capitalising on the state’s unique crossroads position between two oceans and two regions

– by Peter Chalk, subject matter expert on maritime security with the Center for Civil Military Relations at the Naval Postgraduate School in the United States

The rise of the Southeast Asian coast guards

– The last 20 years have seen an exponential growth in coast guard services in Southeast Asia

– by Trevor Hollingsbee, maritime security expert and columnist

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 November 1), 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 passenger 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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