Physical Protection of Transoceanic Cargo Ships Against Modern Piracy

Piracy has represented, from history to the present day, a major problem in the field of maritime logistics routes. Pirate acts and all parallel acts do not have good intentions when they stop a cargo ship and the actors manage to board it; negative consequences then arise for all participating representatives – people employed in logistics directions or people responsible for the safe passage of orders and customers who may not receive their orders at all in the end or they are very delayed. It precisely and in detail determines the positioning and implementation of technical protection and physical protection.

Problem

Piracy has represented, from history to the present day, a major problem in the field of maritime logistics routes. Pirate acts and all parallel acts do not have good intentions when they stop a cargo ship and the actors manage to board it; negative consequences then arise for all participating representatives – people employed in logistics directions or people responsible for the safe passage of orders and customers who may not receive their orders at all in the end or they are very delayed. To prevent such and other unpleasantries from occurring and for everything to proceed according to set goals, a highly successful security service takes the lead here in the first place, followed by other security entities with which it can cooperate or cooperation with them is absolutely necessary.

From the security service, which has earned great honour in providing protection at a high level of risk and threat, it is expected to carry out protection at the level from loading and transit to unloading. It must have excellent protection tactics, all necessary equipment for both security guards and video surveillance, and excellently prepared security guards, both physically and mentally, as it primarily concerns physical protection. The security engineer, who is employed in this selected security service, must know the protection terrain very well in order to prepare a protection plan, appropriately assess the level of risk and threat with the help of consultation with the ship's captain about all possible routes and technical data regarding the ship.

Selects technical protection equipment.

Solution and Method

Precisely and in detail determines the positioning and implementation of technical protection and physical protection. Also determines special mutual communication and measures in case of attack or accident. Security guards, who are positioned at precisely determined positions, must be mentally and physically prepared for extraordinary events and know how to respond professionally, quickly and with the least possible consequences.

They must be aware of their rights and duties as security employees. If the security service wishes to prevent pirate attacks on the protected cargo ship, it must know some of their tactics, equipment and capabilities of boats, mother ship, equipment that pirates have on them, in order to respond appropriately and tactically to its advantage. Because just as technology and humanity in general progress, organised crime or in this case piracy progresses in parallel.

We must be aware that piracy is their reality and a great danger that lurks both on cargo ships and on cruise ships of the world's seas and oceans. As it appears, a great deal of effort and resources will need to be invested in suppressing this type of crime, which has transformed from mythology and fairy tales into a cruel reality around the world.