Seminar "Piracy and armed robbery at sea: How best to protect seafarers?"

Seminar "Piracy and armed robbery at sea: How best to protect seafarers?"

3 March 2010

This seminar addresses how piracy affects seafarers, taking into account that acts of piracy and armed robbery have become more frequent and more violent, especially in the seas off Somalia and the Horn of Africa. It looked at the various issues involved from the seafarers' point of view.

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Presentations and seminar material

Agenda

Summary

Key notes

European Commission, Welcome address by the Chairman, Mr Fotis Karamitsos - Director Maritime Transport, Directorate General for Mobility and Transport

European Parliament, Key Note Address by Mr. Brian Simpson, Chairman of the European Parliament Transport Committee

European Commission, Closing Address by Mr Siim Kallas, Vice-President of the European Commission, responsible for Transport

Measures to consider prior transiting a dangerous area

Mr Alfons Guinier, Secretary General of ECSA

Mr Peter Swift, Managing Director, INTERTANKO

Mr Giles Noakes, Head of Security Department, BIMCO

Mr Jon Whitlow, ITF Secretary, Seafarers Section

The answer of the insurance market and its consequences

Mr. Neil Roberts, Senior Executive- Underwriting, Lloyds Market Association

Mr Nigel Carden, Maritime Security Subcommittee Chairman, International Group of the P&I Clubs

Mr Guy Morel, Secretary General, InterManager

Location and information sharing systems - effective European Commission tools

Mr Willem de Ruiter, Executive Director of EMSA

A nightmare comes true: tales of captivity – Round Table

Captain Colin Darch, ex Master of MV "Svitzer Korsakov"

Implications of piracy and armed robbery on the attractiveness of the maritime professions

Mr Koji Sekimizu, Maritime Safety Division, IMO

Mrs Christina Vartsos-Tzannetakis, Unit C1, Directorate General for Mobility and Transport, European Commission

Images gallery - Pictures from the seminar

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