Here is the latest International Maritime report on Piracy at sea. For those of you have read with interest the way in which this age-old problem has become newsworthy in 2009 I hope you will find it eye-opening.  The problem has not changed radically rather it ebbs and flows as it has for time immemorial. And for those of you who have gone to sea to work as I have you know that the problems are simply more visible when they involve an American flagged ship which was perhaps inevitable.  Please open the link to view it.

http://www.imo.org/includes/blastDataOnly.asp/data_id%3D25980/138.pdf

Tom Bryant is a partner in Meridian Consulting. His 35 year work career began in a farming community in Alberta and encompasses years in the onshore/offshore oilfield industry, penitentiary and parole supervision of violent offenders in the Correctional Service of Canada, and more recently risk management for corporate clientele primarily in the energy industry.