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Energy shipping firm deploys armed guards despite LNG carriers’ smaller risk of piracy
Hal Brown – Friday 5 April 2013
PIRATES are very much a concern for Shell’s gas shipping operation, even though liquefied natural gas carriers are no easy target for attackers.
As Shell’s LNG vessel Mekaines loaded cargo last month in Ras Laffan , Qatar, it had already made preparations to pick up a team of armed guards.
The four guards, all ex-Royal Marines, joined the ship at Muscat in the Gulf of Oman, before the vessel sailed into the Arabian Sea, bound for the Isle of Grain in the UK.