The Latest Tactics of Pirates are Borrowed from the Pages of Naval History.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Oct. 23, 2013 - PRLog -- Recent intelligence gathered by Special Maritime Service indicates that at least one of the Pirate Groups operating out of Somalia have their eyes set on bigger stakes in an already lucrative criminal enterprise.

What to do with all of those hijacked ships? Smaller boats and ships are readily pressed into service or quickly sold off, but the large cargo and container ships until now presented a problem. Temporarily used to imprison the hijacked crews then stripped of anything salvageable, they were often left to the elements and ultimately allowed to sink.

But now the pirates, flush with their most recent ransom, have access to a vast array of heavy weapons, cell phones, GPS technology, radar, coupled with a large commercial ship, only need a captain and skeleton crew to transform into sea raiders.

From the earliest attacks, carried out by small bands of pirates armed with aging Kalashnikovs, in a single wooden fishing skiff,  to the wolfpack style attacks carried out by two or more boat loads of pirates now armed with larger boats, and heavier weapons, to utilizing captured fishing trawlers converted to motherships that can launch several heavily armed boat loads of pirates against an unsuspecting ship. it is not hard to realize that the above scenario is the next logical step in the evolution of the pirates tactics.

Until ship owners realize that the cavalry isn't coming to their rescue, that they must apply their own solutions to this international problem, maritime piracy is not likely to go away anytime soon.

Special Maritime Service offers ship owners that solution. By placing professional security teams, drawn from the former ranks of special operations commands onboard their ships to repel hijackers. This coupled with sound pre-route planning and realistic hijack counter measures will stop piracy.

Ralf Nagel, CEO of The German Ship Owners' Association (VDR)  "Until now, no ship protected by armed security staff has ever been captured by pirates."