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EU NAVFOR conducts three more successful escorts for WFP and AMISOM vessels

August 31, 2010 – 4:32 pm

After ten days chasing and disrupting suspect skiffs in the Gulf of Aden, the French EUNAVFOR Flag ship DE GRASSE headed south to the Somali Basin, to conduct the EU NAVFOR primary task: protection of merchant vessels (MV) chartered by World Food Program (WFP) and African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM). Under the...

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Malta flagged oil tanker evades pirate attack March 28, 2010 – 10:34 pm On the morning 27 of March the Malta-flagged tanker MV SAVEH with a deadweight of 150 000 tonnes, was attacked... Find out more	Pirate Dies in Attempted Hijacking – EU NAVFOR Detains Pirate Action Group March 24, 2010 – 8:10 am Early on the morning of Tuesday 23 March, an EU NAVFOR warship received a distress call from a merchant ship... Find out more
Merchant Ship Successfully Repels Pirate Attack March 23, 2010 – 7:54 pm Early on the morning of Tuesday 23 March, a Panamanian-flagged cargo ship, UAE owned, MV ALMEZAAN, en route to Mogadishu,... Find out more	Naval units cooperation disrupts pirates November 5, 2009 – 6:15 pm On the morning of November 5th a General Cargo ship and a Bulk Carrier were attacked in the Gulf of... Find out more
Bulk Carrier hijacked in Indian Ocean November 5, 2009 – 1:53 pm Early this morning on 5 November a Greek owned (Marshall Island flagged) Bulk Carrier named the MV Delvina was hijacked... Find out more	Seven suspected pirates detained in Indian Ocean October 28, 2009 – 9:16 am In the afternoon of October 27th 2009, 350 nautical miles east of Mogadishu, Somalia a French Fishing Vessel was attacked... Find out more