Owners are today reducing best management practice (BMP) measures in favour of guards given the belief no vessel carrying an armed security team has ever been successfully hijacked off Somalia, SAMI founder and security director Peter Cook reveals.
Speaking today in London, he explained: “I also know, and I’m getting a lot of stories now from my companies, that there are a significant number of shipowners putting a lot of pressure on private maritime security companies to reduce the team sizes.
“Now,
