The Liberian Administration continues its constant efforts to provide its ship owners with timely and useful information on preparedness and protective measures to avoid and deter piracy attacks by gathering and sharing information with shipowners. This information is disseminated in the form of periodic advisories, security alerts, lessons learned from incidents, training programs and seminars. This real‐time data is used to augment the existing guidelines and standing orders that the Liberian Administration has provided to vessels in regards to measures that must be taken to
deter, avoid and delay acts of piracy. Unfortunately and despite the efforts of Liberia and other sovereign nations the piracy problem in the region persists and is expected to continue, and the need for naval protection, governmental involvement and additional merchant vessel protection measures, is likely to go on for a considerable time.