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UN body to use Piracy theme for World Maritime Day

9:44 PM Sun 15 Aug 2010 GMT

'The face of modern day piracy - well organised, para military personnel, armed, deadly and tactically astute.' .

While the good news was that there were no recorded piracy incidents against yachts this last 'pirate season', the even better news was that the International Maritime Organisation, the United Nations' specialized agency responsible for improving maritime safety and preventing pollution from ships, has approved the theme for World Maritime Day 2011 as Piracy: Orchestrating the Response Much publicity is given to the awful plight of merchant seamen held hostage while their companies scrabble to pay their ransoms, and to the two cruising sailors still held hostage since 2009, but little attention is paid to the marginal effects of the ...

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