The importance of maritime security to a region

Posted on September 29, 2014 at 10:05 am

Maritime guard helps to protect ships and planes that fly across the ocean or lakes from possible security threats. Mostly marine security focuses on the safety of planes, ships and their crew members at sea, and when arriving at the ports. Maritime organisations helps to ensure that sea vessels are well guarded and crew members takes the responsibility of watching out for possible threats and issues that may cause mayhem. With maritime guard, sea vessels and planes flying across the ocean can be safeguarded from possible terror attacks, ship hijacking and icebergs that may cause destruction to ships.


In the wold today, security has been a major problem for most countries and many regions have collaborated together in order to ensure ocean territories are well safeguarded. Training ship crew members in the importance of marine guard is a great way of ensuring that ship vessels are well guarded. Most marine travel agencies have trained officers that guard cruises and ships that transport people. Different weather changes makes some sea territories to experience threats, since conditions such as rainy weather or stormy ocean make it hard for officers to respond to emergencies.

In order to ensure that there is marine guard in some regions, Most countries enter into an agreement on how to safeguard water vessels and planes that fly across different sea territories. A good cooperation between different security organisations helps to enhance maritime guard in a region. Countries that have security agreements, should try to ensure that they follow their mandate to protect their territories. In the UK, marine guard raises some concerns on the safety for sea travelers. The government strives hard to ensure that ships, cruises and marine vessels are well protected from any possible threats.

With terror threats being a major threat for many countries. The UK government has established good marine guard agency that ensures that UK sea territories are not affected by criminal acts of terrorism. The UK marine guard combats a wide range of illegal acts that occur in the sea and ports. Drug trafficking that occur in many parts of the Atlantic ocean is taken with major concerns by the UK maritime organisations and appropriate measures have been implemented to discourage drug trafficking around UK sea territories. Since maritime environment is very broad and wide, Marine guard officers uses the latest marine technologies to discover threats and unusual activities in some sea territories.

When Marine guard is properly enhanced, trade and maritime security business can easily thrive to promote the economy of a country. Good security encourages entrepreneurs and inverters to start maritime business. In the UK, there are thousands of cargo’s that are transported across the Atlantic ocean and the many companies rely on maritime authorities to safeguard their goods. Without good marine guard, business and sea transport can be very hand to carry out but with the existence of peaceful sea territories sea transport can easily thrive. Government agencies and marine guard authorities should strive hard to ensure that all sea territories are well safeguarded in order for businesses to thrive.

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