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Houthi group
Ambrey and Inchcape Shipping Services Join Forces to Revolutionize Safety and Security in the Maritime Sector.
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About:Â Ambrey
Ambrey was established in 2010 to offer a dynamic and creative solution putting clients’ needs first, providing safety, security, marine and risk management services to the Shipping, Oil & Gas, and Offshore industries.
At the time Somali Piracy
At the time Somali Piracy was reaching its peak and early market entrants to the counter-piracy security market were struggling to meet demand from the shipping sector for compliant armed-guard services off the coast of Somalia.
Initiatives to standardise and regulate services
The demand was so high that many early market entrants were unable to fulfil them, and service levels were being compromised in order to scale support operations quickly. Ambrey quickly responded to the client need for compliant, well-trained and reliable armed security guards on merchant vessels and pioneered industry initiatives to standardise and regulate services such as Bimco’s Guardcon, City and Guild’s MSO course and ISO28007.
Houthi rebels attacking commercial ships
Whereas the start of the Israel-Hamas war in October 2023 brought a new kind of conflict to prominence, with Iran-backed Houthi rebels attacking commercial ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. The Houthis are an armed political and religious group which champions Yemen’s Shia Muslim minority, the Zaidis.
Formally known as the Ansar Allah (Partisans of God), the group emerged in the 1990s and takes its name from the movement’s late founder, Hussein al-Houthi. The current leader is his brother, Abdul Malik al-Houthi.
