International trading: threats to maritime commercial traffic

The sea transports nearly 90% of world commerce of goods and services, but despite this remains less regulated and controlled in comparison to land and sky: security codes introduced in recent years are not regularly implemented by ship owners or by states, primarily in areas where controls remain rudimentary. The principal threat to navigation safety and international trading comes from communication between terrorist and pirate bands, and from the realization of their destructive aims via the use of small projectile crafts packed with explosives and driven against the hulls of military and merchant ships. The settings in which an attack may occur are manifold, at which point it becomes impossible to identify a single response.

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Elisa Morici

(13 November 2007)