Archive for October, 2011
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EU NAVFOR visited USNAVAF
Rear Admiral Christian Canova, Deputy Commander of EU NAVFOR, visited the United States Navy Base Naples, home of the Command, US Naval Forces Africa (USNAVAF) and the 6th Fleet on 19 October 2011. Rear Admiral James L. Foggo III, Deputy Commander 6th Fleet and Chief of Staff of USNAVAF, welcomed the Deputy...
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Media Day in Mombasa
FGS BAYERN, visiting the port of Mombasa with the Force Headquarters (FHQ) Operation Atalanta embarked, has hosted a media day for regional media representatives from Kenya and Somalia. They were welcomed by the Commander Task Force (CTF), Rear Admiral Thomas E. P. Jugel. The Chief of Staff (COS) of the Task Force,...
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EU NAVFOR warship INFANTA CRISTINA escorts AMISOM-vessel
EU NAVFOR warship SPS INFANTA CRISTINA left Mombasa’s waters last week to assume the escort of merchant vessel PETRA 1 which carries supplies for the African Union troops operating in Somalia as part of the AMISOM force. The journey is from Mombasa to Mogadishu and in addition to the ship escort, a...
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Common goal is to fight piracy
The flagship FGS BAYERN of the EU-led mission Atalanta recently visited in the port city of Mombasa in Kenya. The commander of Task Force 465, Rear Admiral Thomas E.P.Jugel, used the occasion to introduce himself to the commander of the Kenyan Navy, Major General Ngewa Mukala. In Kenya’s Maritime Headquarters, the German...
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EU NAVFOR warship escorts WFP-vessel
The German frigate FGS KOELN, participating in European Union Naval Force Somalia – Operation Atalanta, has recently escorted M/V CAROLINE SCAN to the Kenyan port Mombasa. The ship is chartered by the World Food Programme and will be loaded with urgently needed food for the people in Somalia. Additionally a German Vessel...
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Replenishment at Sea increases operational capability
After several days conducting counter-piracy operations in the area off the Horn of Africa, the German naval warship FGS BAYERN conducts a rendezvous with the Dutch Supply Tanker HNLMS ZUIDERKRUIS to replenish her fuel tanks. Shortly after the tanker is alongside the frigate, the Replenishment at Sea (RAS) begins. Large hoses join...
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Suspected Pirates disrupted by EU NAVFOR
On 7 October EU NAVFOR warship FGS KOELN successfully disrupted a suspect Pirate Action Group’s (PAG) supply boat, a whaler, operating in the Somali Basin about 200 nautical miles East of Tanzania. The whaler had been located previously by a Norwegian Maritime Patrol and Reconnaissance Aircraft (MPRA) under control of NATO Task...
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7th TRADE Meeting at EU NAVFOR Operational Headquarters
The 7th meeting of the Training Awareness and De-confliction (TRADE) group took place on 4 October at the Operational Headquarters of EU NAVFOR Operation ATALANTA in Northwood. “TRADE is a very useful tool to co-ordinate and de-conflict training by different stakeholders”, said Rear Admiral Christian Canova, Deputy Operation Commander EU NAVFOR...
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EU NAVFOR warship saves five Somali fishermen
On 4 October 2011, the EUNAVFOR warship FGS KÖLN came to the rescue of five Somali fishermen drifting in the Indian Ocean in a broken-down fishing whaler and returned them safely to the shore. The Somali fishermen has been drifting for nine days following the breakdown of their engine and without any...
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“International naval forces need to play a more robust role”
UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG), Augustine P. Mahiga, spoke clear words on how to counter Piracy off the coast of Somalia on the occasion of 20th Meeting of the International Contact Group (ICG) on Somalia in Copenhagen, Denmark. SRSG Mahiga urged the “growing need to deliver Somali capacity to deal...