25 August 2026
Shipping’s security rulebook meets the missile age

Seventeen months after the publication of BMP Maritime Security, perhaps the uncomfortable question is no longer whether the guidance is good enough. It is whether any industry guidance can keep pace with a world in which merchant ships are increasingly navigating through the middle of a naval battlefield. Maria Dixon reports. Missiles. Drones.
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