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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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EU NAVFOR and Seychelles Coastguard cooperate to seize suspected pirates December 7, 2009 – 2:39 pm In the evening of December 6th approximately 250 nautical miles North West of Victoria Seychelles a pirate attack group was... Find out more	Operational Commander EU NAVFOR visits Djibouti and Kenya December 5, 2009 – 3:00 pm From 29 Nov to 2 Dec, Rear Admiral Peter Hudson Operational Commander of EU NAVFOR Somalia – Operation Atalanta, visitied... Find out more
EU NAVFOR French warship Floreal tracks down Pirate attack group November 13, 2009 – 5:23 pm On Thursday 12 November, the EU NAVFOR French warship Floreal tracked down and apprehended the pirate attack group responsible for... Find out more	Longest range pirate attack on Crude Oil Tanker in Indian Ocean November 9, 2009 – 2:13 pm Around noon local time, 9 November 2009 the BW Lion, a Hong Kong flagged, 160.000 tons and 330 meter long... Find out more
NATO Teams up with EU NAVFOR March 26, 2009 – 4:29 pm Two German ships from NATO have joined Op Atalanta in the Gulf of Aden this week; the frigate FGS EMDEN... Find out more	Bulk Carrier Hijacked March 19, 2009 – 5:57 pm A 43,000 tonne Greek owned bulk carrier, the MV TITAN was hijacked earlier this afternoon while transiting eastbound through the... Find out more
Video Footage of Suspect Pirates’ Capture and BBC Radio 4 Interview February 11, 2009 – 1:34 pm Op Atalanta protecting merchant shipping The video footage of Op Atalanta ship FS FLOREAL capturing suspected pirates in the Gulf of... Find out more	Op Atalanta warship FLOREAL (FR) captures suspected pirates January 30, 2009 – 8:32 am On Tuesday, the French warship FLOREAL, part of the EU Naval Operation Atalanta, captured two vessels carrying suspected pirates in... Find out more