Best Management Practices
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Best Management Practices

  5.4 Experience supported by data collected by naval forces shows that the application of the recommendations contained in the latest version of the BMP can make a significant difference in preventing a ship falling victim to piracy or armed robbery against ships. It is recommended that BMP be applied throughout the HRA and in the Internationally Recommended Transit Corridor (IRTC) and be considered as the first, minimum, preventative option. An armed team should only be seen as a supplement to full BMP implementation and in no way replaces the need for BMP to be implemented.

Parent topic: 5 Deployment considerations
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