Riding shotgun : armed security guards onboard merchant ships

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Sam, Bateman
• مؤلفون آخرون: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• التنسيق: Commentary
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2011
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Social sciences
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/91002; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/6560

The use of armed security guard onboard merchant ships in high-risk piracy areas is hotly debated within the international shipping industry. While their use has been mostly opposed, ongoing pirate activity off the Horn of Africa is causing some rethink.