February 2021 - National Maritime Foundation

ARMED ROBBERY AT SEA IN INDIA: TRENDS AND IMPERATIVES

Introduction ‘Armed robbery against ships’ [hereinafter referred to as ‘armed robbery’] has been defined by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) as “any illegal act of violence or detention, or any act of depredation,…

MAKING WAVES E-NEWS BRIEF 15 FEBRUARY 2021 – 21 FEBRUARY 2021

The signing of a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Mauritius is India's first such engagement with an African partner. The Comprehensive Economic Cooperation & Partnership Agreement (CECPA) with Mauritius is a culmination of India's External…

MAKING WAVES E-NEWS BRIEF 08 FEBRUARY 2021 – 14 FEBRUARY 2021

Although looking at a severe shortage of frigates in the near future, the Royal Navy has stepped up its commitments in the distant Indo-Pacific by announcing the deployment of the HMS Queen Elizabeth to the Indo-Pacific Region (IPR). This…

MAKING WAVES E-NEWS BRIEF 01 FEBRUARY 2021 – 7 FEBRUARY 2021

Even as Beijing launched a second Type 054 Class Frigate for the Pakistani Navy, Turkey - another of Pakistan's all-weather ally - has begun the construction of the third ship of MILGEM class corvettes for its ally's at the Istanbul Naval…

THE CHANGING DYNAMICS OF TAIWAN’S POLITICAL ACCEPTANCE

Introduction Taiwan, officially known as the Republic of China (ROC), is a democratically ruled island of about 23.6 million people across the Taiwan Strait from mainland China. Taiwan Strait, which is 110 kms wide, connects the South China…

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COMMUNITY OUTREACH FOR MARITIME SECURITY IN INDIA: NEED FOR A CONTEMPORARY APPROACH

Introduction On 26 November 2020, seven fishermen on board a sinking boat were rescued off the Maharashtra coast after fishermen from a nearby boat alerted the owner…

FLOATING OIL-STORAGE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS ON INDIA’S ENERGY SECURITY: PART-2

This is the concluding segment of a two-part article — published online by the National Maritime Foundation (NMF) on successive days — which seeks to analyse the manner in which the intersection of two extraordinary events, namely, the COVID-19…

MAKING WAVES E-NEWS BRIEF 25 JANUARY 2021 – 31 JANUARY 2021

In one of its first engagements with a close ally of its Free and Open Indo-Pacific Vision, the newly-inaugurated administration of US President Joe Biden, reaffirmed to Prime Minister Suga its commitment to provide 'extended' deterrence to…

FLOATING OIL-STORAGE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS ON INDIA’S ENERGY SECURITY — PART-1

The two parts over which this article has been penned seek to analyse the manner in which the intersection of two extraordinary events — the COVID-19 pandemic and the oil-price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia — produced a sequence of…