International Operative Services
| Single Enterprise | |
| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | Maritime |
| Founded 📆 | 1996 |
| Founder 👔 | |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | , Sittensen , Germany |
Area served 🗺️ | Private Maritime Security Company |
| Products 📟 | Security |
| Members | |
Number of employees | |
| 🌐 Website | www.ibs-ops.com |
| 📇 Address | |
| 📞 telephone | |
The Maritime Security Division is a branch of i.b.s. International Operative Services (i.b.s.) in Sittensen Germany.[1] The core business of the Maritime Security Division is the operational protection of merchant vessels by deploying an armed security team (Privately Contracted Armed Security Personnel - PCASP).[2] The company is one of currently three duly lisenced German based Private Maritime Security Companies.[3] The company is managed by the owner Horst Rütten, a former member of the German Navy and an experienced close protection officer.[4]
Background[edit]
The uprise of Somali based piracy between 2007 and 2012 had significant negatives effects on the German maritime industry.[5] Notwithstanding that only a few vessels fly under German flag at this time, German based shipping companies operated the third biggest merchant fleet world wide (usually in commercial flag register) and had been confronted with hijacking of their vessels and kidnapping of the crews while transits through the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean.[6] Related incidents with broader public attention were the hijack of the MV Hansa Stavanger in 2009 and the MV Taipan in 2010.
As a reaction on the piracy peril, the German parliament decided to mandate the German Federal Armed Forces to take part in the European Union Mission Operation Atalanta in late 2008. In 2010, the German Federal Police Maritime Section established an own Piracy-Prevention-Centre in Neustadt in Holstein.[7][8] In 2013 the German Parliament passed the art. 31 German trade regulations (Maritime Security for Merchant Vessels)[9] which introduced a licensing procedure by the Federal Office for Economics and Export Control (BAFA) for Private Maritime Security Companies on board German flagged vessels.[10]
Even though other countries also established similiar licensing or approval procedures ,[11], the German regulation has to be understood as particular restrictive.[12] The high level of legal regulation has led to only three German security companies being licensed of around 5.000 despite the huge size of the merchant fleet operated by German shipping companies.[13]
References[edit]
- ↑ Description of the Maritime Security Division Website of i.b.s. of October 2017
- ↑ Privately Contracted Armed Security Personnel Advisory of the German Flag via deutsche-flagge.de
- ↑ List of lisenced PMSC Website of the Federal Office for Economics and Export Control (BAFA) of 10/21/2018
- ↑ Bodyguards: Expericene Matters Hamburger Abendblatt of 02/12/2000
- ↑ Taking the offensive against Piracy Hamburger Abendblatt of 08/27/08
- ↑ Germany plans to regulate anti-piracy security firms Deutsche Welle of 07/19/2012
- ↑ The Piracy Prevention Center (PPZ) Website of the German Federal Police
- ↑ Fyler of the Piracy Prevention Center (PPZ) Website of the German Federal Police
- ↑ Law for the Introduction of a Licensing Process for Maritime Security Service German Federal Gazette I, S. 362
- ↑ Maritime Security Website of the Federal Office for Economics and Export Control (BAFA)
- ↑ Comparasion of Flag State Law for the use of Armed Guards International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)
- ↑ Evaluation of the Art. 31 Trade Law BT-Drs 18/5456
- ↑ Number of registered security companies in Germany up to 2017 statista.com of 10/21/2018
Edited Version[edit]
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