Industry Sector

  • Puntland ‘Seizes Arms From Yemen’

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    Bossaso — Security forces in Somalia’s Puntland autonomous region have seized a depot of arms and bomb material along the country’s northern coastline, in another sign that Al Qaeda militants […]

  • Norwegian Frigate to Lead NATO Maritime Group

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    “The frigate will thus be leading the important task of combating pirate activity off the coast of the Horn of Africa”, says Defence Minister Anne-Grete Strøm-Erichsen. NATO has asked Norway […]

  • Safety at Sea for Pakistan

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    Since 1980, International Maritime Organisation (IMO), a specialized agency of UN, is celebrating World Maritime Day each year in the last week of September. IMO selected 27th September as World […]

  • Pakistan Pledges Help to Somalia

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    United Nations — With the nine-year-old transitional period in Somalia having ended peacefully, Pakistan pledged all possible support to the African nation which now was on the “cusp of a […]

  • IMO threatens to blacklist Sokhna Port

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    The International Maritime Organization (IMO) threatened Tuesday to put Sokhna Port on its blacklist of unreliable ports as striking workers closed the port for the sixth consecutive day. “We now […]

  • Task Force 152 Gulf Exercise

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    Vessels of multiple nations recently joined forces to complete a two day maritime security training exercise in the Gulf. Exercise Falcon Warrior 12-05 was the first of many such events […]

  • Piracy drops by 54% in Gulf of Aden

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    Ahead of the upcoming Seatrade Middle East Maritime exhibition and conference, the International Maritime Bureau’s (IMB) Piracy Reporting Centre confirms that pirate attacks off the Somali coast have declined by […]

  • Drug War Unity

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    US Coast Guard wants Caribbean unity in drug war. In addressing maritime security, no one government has all the answers, said Michael Brown, representative of the United States Coast Guard. […]

  • Shipping Faces New Security Challenge

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    Piracy off the coast of East Africa has fallen dramatically over the past year thanks in part to better naval surveillance and shipping companies going to sea with armed maritime […]

  • WMD Training

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    PHL Coast Guardsmen trained to intercept weapons of mass destruction As part of their anti-terrorism training, Philippine Coast Guardsmen were taught by their US counterparts how to detect and intercept […]

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