March 2022 - National Maritime Foundation

HOLISTIC MARITIME SECURITY CHALLENGES FACING INDIA: MITIGATION IMPERATIVES AND OPTIONS

India, by virtue of having a large coastal frontage in the northern Indian Ocean, is faced with a wide range of maritime security challenges in both, traditional and non-traditional domains. While traditional threats arise primarily on account…

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THE EUROPEAN UNION, INDIA, AND THE INDO-PACIFIC: INSIGHTS FOR STRATEGIC, PRIVILEGED AND SUSTAINED PARTNERSHIPS

In the present century, the Indo-Pacific region has emerged as a seedbed of both confrontation and cooperation. Outside of the moves and countermoves of the USA and China are two other major players, namely, the EU and India. Concerted…

MAKING WAVES E-NEWS BRIEF: 01 - 15 MARCH 2022

The geopolitical dimension of maritime security accounts for the way geography constraints and informs (directly or indirectly) maritime security policies, regulations, measures, and operations, as well as how states take (tacitly or explicitly)…

MAKING WAVES E-NEWS BRIEF: 01 - 28 FEBRUARY 2022

Representatives from the European Union's (EU) East African naval force attended a second meeting on enhancing maritime security in the Indo-Pacific region. The first meeting resulted in a June joint naval exercise with Indian Navy elements…

MAKING WAVES E-NEWS BRIEF: 17 - 31 JANUARY 2022

A five-month intelligence operation spanning 34 countries and all oceans by Interpol revealed learned that the current depletion of marine living resources is driving a surge in fisheries-related crime. Operation Ikatere, the one-month tactical…

MAKING WAVES E-NEWS BRIEF: 02 - 16 JANUARY 2022

Maersk, the world’s second-largest shipping line by container capacity, committed to a 50% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions per transported container by 2030. A commitment of such a large proportion, by a major industry player, in a ‘hard-to-abate’…

MAKING WAVES E-NEWS BRIEF: 18 DECEMBER 2021 - 01 JANUARY 2022

With a 52% fall in the number of piracy and armed robbery incidents in the Gulf of Guinea in 2020, the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) Assembly urged governments to continue to cooperate with and assist States in the Gulf of Guinea…

MAKING WAVES E-NEWS BRIEF: 03 - 17 DECEMBER 2021

At the 8th Indian Ocean Dialogue on Post Pandemic Indian Ocean, India advocated its vision of SAGAR as a bedrock to establish trust, transparency, respect for international maritime rules, equal access as a right under the international law,…

MAKING WAVES E-NEWS BRIEF: 18 NOVEMBER - 02 DECEMBER 2021

Japan, India’s QUAD partner, has been expanding its maritime engagement with Southeast Asia. It has augmented the capacity of the Philippine Coast Guard by supplying it with its second multi-role response vessel (MRRV). Parallelly, it has…

MAKING WAVES E-NEWS BRIEF: 03 - 17 NOVEMBER 2021

The Indian Navy, which has played a large role in Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) operations in the Asia-Pacific since the Indian Ocean Tsunami of 2004, is finalising a standard operating procedure (SOP) for dealing with natural…

MAKING WAVES E-NEWS BRIEF: 19 OCTOBER - 02 NOVEMBER 2021

Shortly after participating in Foreign Minister-level discussion with the UAE, the US and Israel on maritime security, among many other issues, India joined the 34-member Combined Maritime Force (CMF) based in Bahrain. These two initiatives…

MAKING WAVES E-NEWS BRIEF: 04 - 18 OCTOBER 2021

The conduct of Phase II of the MALABAR 2021 maritime exercise, in the Bay of Bengal, intends to enhance integrated maritime operations between the QUAD countries within the Indian Ocean Region. Manoeuvres by the French Navy’s signals intelligence…