Tag: maritime news
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Citadel Success
HMS Montrose has come to the rescue of a crew attacked by pirates and locked in a citadel aboard their ship in the Southern Red Sea. Six armed men boarded […]
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Joining In
On 9th of August the French frigate F711 FS ‘Surcouf’ joined the EU NAVFOR Task Force. She is commanded by Captain Marc-Antoine de Saint Germain, and after intense training her […]
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Tech War
Two American experts, have presented a remote-controlled aircraft capable of launching airborne cyber attacks and hijack mobile phone calls developed to combat piracy telematics. The new drone aircraft, called WASP […]
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Trawler Rescue
The Government of Puntland State of Somalia has rescued 14 Myanmar fishermen held as hostages by Somali pirates. During a press conference in the Puntland capital of Garowe, the Government […]
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Citadel Saviour
Pirates attacked two tankers off the coast of Benin as they were undergoing a ship-to-ship transfer. The vessels involved were the mother ship ‘Golden Sofia’ and the daughter vessel ‘Aidin’. […]
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Cash Flow
The ‘hawala’ route of illegal money transactions is being used to pay Somali piracy ransoms. This is according to the top global body setting standards for combating terror financing and […]
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Law Change
The Indian Directorate General of Shipping plans to issue a draft notification allowing merchant ships to deploy armed guards on board, said Satish B. Agnihotri, who heads the regulatory agency. […]
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Local Deal
The Maldives and Seychelles have agreed to combat piracy jointly. The decision was prompted after two attacks in June off India’s Southern coast rang alarm bells for the two nations. […]
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Heading Home
Hundreds of US sailors are coming home to Norfolk, Virginia. USS Bainbridge (DDG 96) will tie up at Naval Station Norfolk after seven months in the 5th and 6th Fleet […]
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New Law
India is in an advanced stage of drafting a new law to deal with piracy. The bill seeks to define piracy, the people who can be termed as pirates, the […]
