Testifying before a key senate committee, Richard Phillips, the cargo-ship captain whose capture by pirates triggered a dramatic U.S. Navy rescue off the coast of Africa, called on the federal government Thursday to provide military escorts for international shipping vessels.
It seems to me that this would be a long and extremely expensive undertaking. Would it not be better and more cost effective for the vessel owners to employ private security companies to handle their own protection. I am sure that if the pirates were aware, that in the future, armed professionals were on board, they would quickly desist in their attempts to highjack ships and have to look for another and safer source of income.
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