Daniel McAteer, joins Mitig8 Energy Engineering as Director, bringing with him a broad depth of experiance in the Oil, Gas and Marine Industry.
85% of all world trade travels by sea. Maritime shipping is therefore an essential, key and vulnerable service in the vital, fragile supply chain which spans the consumer world. The global supply chain is therefore recognised as one of the highest priority targets for politically, religiously and criminally motivated extremist protagonists. Their ultimate adverse aim is to severely and decisively impact on the economic and social effectiveness of what are seen as iconic businesses reliant on the global supply chain and, ultimately, the destabilisation of the global economy. Such acts of geopolitical violence, as previously experienced, also bring with them death, injury and trauma.
PART I: THE THREAT.
Irrespective of where the threat comes from, be it political violence in the shape of home grown and international terrorism, piracy or other forms of serious organised and violent crime, the fact remains that there is a palpable sustained global increase in extreme hostile actions on land, in the air and, progressively, against high value marine assets. These extreme hostile actions are intended to provide financial and motivational support in achieving a range of politically and criminally driven malevolent objectives. In addition to simple straight forward financial theft, these objectives include fund raising for the purchase of conventional weapons, explosives and equipment in support of terrorist groups; demoralisation by inflicting high casualty counts; acts of sabotage and subversion; aggressive political propaganda activity and civil unrest (riots, strikes and malicious damage). According to Government expert analysts and UK Intelligence & Security Services, the threat remains acute. There is also an ever growing risk of extreme hostile organisations acquiring the ability to create a range of weapons of mass destruction using chemical, biological, nuclear and radioactive (CBNR) materials – all of which could be directed against what may be termed as ‘popular’ targets.
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