Transnational Maritime Security Concerns in IOR

Piracy and Armed Robbery

• Dense shipping and weak maritime policing in the Indian Ocean have favoured piracy, which over the last decade has become a major threat in the Red Sea, Somali Basin and Malacca Strait.
• Somali piracy has been acknowledged not only as a threat to maritime trade but also to maritime security. Somalia is near one of the major conduits traversed by maritime shipping—the Bab-el-Mandeb.

Maritime Terrorism

• Terrorism, in particular, has had a major impact on our maritime security. In recent decades, there been an expansion of this threat from land to sea, and from sea further ....