
MAKING WAVES E-NEWS BRIEF: 01 - 15 JUNE 2022
Making Waves’ is a compilation of maritime news and news analyses drawn from national and international online sources. Drawn directly from original sources, minor editorial amendments are made by specialists on maritime affairs. It is intended…

MAKING WAVES E-NEWS BRIEF: 01 - 15 MAY 2022
Making Waves is a compilation of maritime news and news analyses drawn from national and international online sources. Drawn directly from original sources, minor editorial amendments are made by specialists on maritime affairs. It is intended…

MAKING WAVES E-NEWS BRIEF: 01 - 30 APRIL 2022
Making Waves is a compilation of maritime news and news analyses drawn from national and international online sources. Drawn directly from original sources, minor editorial amendments are made by specialists on maritime affairs. It is intended…

MAKING WAVES E-NEWS BRIEF: 15 - 31 MARCH 2022
On March 30, the fifth Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) was held in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa presided over the summit, which was attended electronically…

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…