MCSB defines the term security within the working milieu of the industry as protection of vessels and assets from any threats of any shapes and forms, onshore and offshore. The Maritime Institute of Technology and Graduate Studies (MITAGS) describes several areas in maritime and shipping activities and operations that need security, namely “terrorism, piracy, robbery, illegal trafficking of goods and people, illegal fishing and pollution”.

Similarly, we identify these as threats to security, and we take issues of security seriously.The Malaysian Marine Department (Jabatan Laut Malaysia) underlines a set of resonating objectives that we can always get behind, in that they describe their Safety, Security, and Environment Division as contingent upon the “Planning, analyzing, acknowledging and providing advisory services to the Maritime Transportation System focusing on marine safety, security and environmental activities based on National and International legislation.”

The level of readiness in these objectives is the same anticipation we adopt for our operation as implied earlier.In the wake of the rapid growth of information intelligence in this digital age, we keep matters of cybersecurity open, involving every personnel and the management to integrate and instil a sense of security at work and when running operations on a day-to-day basis. Inclusion to us is efficiency.

There are arrays of intelligent assets that need protection that include everyone’s roles and participation such as:
+ Vessels physical safety through monitoring and remote surveillance + Data transfer + Periodic assessment of system performance and vulnerability + User controls and access + Contingency plans + Risk exposure and more. Security readiness offers great benefits to our business especially on its impact on the Environment and Safety.