International Marine Transportation Ltd (IMT), its UK-based shipping affiliate, is going to start conducting best management practices 4 (BMP4) audits for vessels transiting through the area.
"BMP4 has been effective in hardening vessels transiting through the Indian Ocean so that even an unarmed merchant ship, while by no means impregnable to an attack by pirates, is now much harder to capture," said Gerry Northwood OBE, COO of global security provider MAST.
"BMP4
