A number of recent press articles have contained allegations that piracy attacks in the Gulf of Aden and the Somali Basin are being coordinated by “well-placed advisers” in London. The articles also alleged that these advisers were able to provide such a coordination service given their access to a “European Military intelligence Report”. Such allegations have no substance and there is no such report. As you would expect, intelligence and information security is treated extremely seriously and there are a number of measures in place to ensure that information which may be of use to pirates, or those who support their acts, is not available.