Training News for 2011 During 2011 IMSA Ltd’s training department and associated trainers trained over 490 delegates in different ISPS code and maritime security related training courses. IMSA ran 20 SSO (plus+) and 3 PFSO, publicly advertised courses...
Mr John Twiss IMSA’s Chief Operating Officer gave a presentation on the importance of citadels to this maritime industry symposium. He was speaking on his personal experiences of designing and preparing citadels on merchant vessels operating in high...
Maritime Security is the business of protecting people, ships, cargoes, assets and operations on the surface and beneath the waters of the world. It involves doing difficult things in a dangerous and demanding environment and it follows that the business...
Marine Security is not Maritime security. The distinction is a subtle one and dictated more by modern useage than hard and fast rules of grammar. In the common lexicon used by seafarers, maritime security is the everyday security of themselves, their...
The Ships Security Officer Course (The SSO Course) came into existence as a result of the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code (The ISPS Code). This maritime Code is for the detection and assessment of threats and the taking of preventative...
The job of ‘Ship Security Officer’ (The SSO) came into being as a result of the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code (The ISPS Code). This maritime Code is for the detection and assessment of threats and the taking of preventative...
Vessel security has taken on a whole new meaning with the upsurge of pirate attacks on ships in the Western Indian Ocean in the last 5 years. The ISPS Code which was aimed at anti-terrorist provision for ships and ports in the wake of the attack on...
