Somali Basin

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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 French warship destroys Pirate mother ship April 29, 2010 – 6:25 pm On the afternoon of 29 April, the EU NAVFOR warship Nivose found, stopped and searched a mother ship and two... Find out more	EU NAVFOR French warship NIVÔSE and Maritime Patrol aircraft continue to intercept and disrupt Pirate Action Groups April 5, 2010 – 8:35 pm EU NAVFOR has continued activities designed to disrupt and destroy Pirate Action Groups (PAGs) with combined sea and air operations... Find out more
Pirated German ship rescued – EU NAVFOR HNLMS Tromp retakes pirated MV Taipan April 5, 2010 – 5:03 pm MV Taipan, a German flagged and owned container ship of deadweight of 12612 tonnes, was on route to Mombasa from... Find out more	Pirates hijack Samho Dream off the Somali coast April 5, 2010 – 4:49 pm The Marshal Islands flagged, crude oil tanker Samho Dream, was hijacked by pirates approximately 600 nautical miles off the Somali coast... Find out more
EU NAVFOR Swedish Patrol Aircraft locates UAE MV EVITA after failed pirate attack March 31, 2010 – 12:00 pm In the early hours of 31 March the MV EVITA, a Sierra Leoone flagged production tanker of 9897 deadwieght tonnes... Find out more	EU NAVFOR Dutch warship Tromp disrupts more Pirate Action Groups March 29, 2010 – 6:42 pm Continuing success by EU NAVFOR over the last 24 hours by Maritime Patrol Aircraft (MPA) and EU NAVFOR HNLMS Tromp,... Find out more
Hijacked ship MV TALCA arrived off Somali coast Bargaal March 25, 2010 – 3:00 pm EU NAVFOR can confirm that the MV Talca, previously reported hijacked on 23 March en route to Busheir in Iran, has... Find out more	Five PAGs swept aside by EU NAVFOR warship TROMP March 22, 2010 – 12:00 pm It has been a busy week for the EU NAVFOR frigate HNLMS TROMP during Operations in the Somali Basin. In the... Find out more
Seychelles President welcomes EU NAVFOR Deputy Commander. March 19, 2010 – 9:15 am On 18 of March at 11.00, the Deputy commander EU NAVFOR Rear Admiral Bartolome Bauza ended a very successful visit... Find out more	Pirates Release of MV Theresa VIII March 16, 2010 – 11:10 am The MV Theresa VIII, a Virgin Islands owned, Kiribati Flagged, chemical tanker with a crew of 28 and deadweight of... Find out more