Yacht transport company Dockwise seeks 'leeway' for pirate protection

12:38 AM Sun 12 Jun 2011 GMT

'Yachts to use Dockwise for transport through pirate waters' .

Dockwise, the world's leading shipping company in the transport of yachts, has requested 'more Leeway' from the Netherlands Government to counteract pirates and threatened a change of flag if it is not forthcoming. At least two round-world yachting rallies were thrown into confusion by the rapid increase in scale and ferocity of pirate attacks in the Indian Ocean this year and Dockwise was one of the companies commissioned to transport some of the boats past the danger zone. However, even Dockwise seems to be disconcerted by the major risk to its ships passing through the zone. While the Dockwise Group ...

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