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News Archive - May 2010

FS GUEPRATTE crew assisting the Mahara

FS GUEPRATTE and the Yemeni dhow Mahara arrive in Marbat, Oman.

May 30, 2010 - 16:22

On Sunday 30 May 2010, the EU NAVFOR vessel FS GUEPRATTE arrived in the Omani port of Marbat having towed the Yemeni Dhow, Mahara for two days.  The FS GUEPRATTE came to the aid of the Mahara on Friday 28 May 2010 after receiving a report from an Australian aircraft. The Mahara which had been […]

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Pirate Action Group disrupted due to excellent cooperation between EU NAVFOR and the Seychelles Coast Guard

May 30, 2010 - 08:39

On Saturday evening, 29 of May, the Seychelles Coast Guard disrupted a Pirate Action Group, including a mother ship with 9 suspected pirates on board and two fast attack skiffs, after being led to the target by an EU NAVFOR maritime patrol aircraft from the Swedish Coast Guard. On last Thursday, 27 May, an EU […]

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Spanish OPV Vencedora contributed outstandingly to EU NAVFOR with 85 percent of time on main task

May 29, 2010 - 13:36

After two months of excellent performance in EU NAVFOR the Spanish Ocean Patrol Vessel (OPV) ESPS Vencedora returns to home base. She contributed with high standards in all tasks but mostly in the primary task; escorting WFP and AMISOM transports 84 percent of her time! Vencedora also executed reconnaissance patrolling along the Somalia coast and […]

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Yemenite fisher men in distress are receiving help from EU NAVFOR warship FS Guepratte

May 29, 2010 - 13:02

Yesterday evening EU NAVFOR warship FS Guepratte stopped to assist Yemenite fisher men in distress. Now she has been towing the Yemenite fishing vessel all night and awaits relief from Omani authorities. In the afternoon yesterday, Friday 28 may, the EU NAVFOR warship FS Guepratte approached a Yemeni fishing dhow, with six persons on board, […]

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EU NAVFOR warship FS Nivôse saves Merchant vessel Nordneptun from pirates

May 25, 2010 - 13:51

A helicopter from the EU NAVFOR warship FS Nivôse was launched against a pirate skiff leading to the disruption of a pirate attack against the merchant vessel Nordneptun off Zanzibar, Tanzania on the morning of 25 May. EU NAVFOR continues to successfully patrol, intercept and disrupt pirate attacks throughout the EU NAVFOR area of operations. […]

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One of the four landing crafts that EU NAVFOR warship Johan de Witt is carrying, outside of central Somalia coast.

EU NAVFOR warship HNLMS Johan de Witt block Pirate access to the sea

May 25, 2010 - 11:05

EU NAVFOR HNLMS Johan de Witt has effectively blocked known pirate camp on the Somali coast from access to the open sea. As an amphibious ship, HNLMS Johan de Witt is able, from a dock within the ship, to launch a number of smaller vessels, LCVPs (Landing craft for vehicle and personnel transport), that can […]

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EU High Representative Catherine Ashton visited EU NAVFOR Flag ship HSwMS Carlskrona

May 21, 2010 - 22:41

“Piracy is one of the big challenges of our times, both for the region and for the international community.” That is the words of the European Union representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton. She visited EU NAVFOR Flag ship HSwMS Carlskrona the Friday 21 of May, during a port visit in Port […]

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EU NAVFOR warship FS Nivôse in exchange of fire

May 21, 2010 - 15:52

The EU NAVFOR French warship, FS Nivôse, came under small arms fire on 20 May from the coast in the port of Mogadishu, as the warship provided safe conduct to MV Alpha Kirawira and Petra 1. In the early hours of Thursday 20 of May, the EU NAVFOR warship FS Nivôse approaching Mogadishu, to begin […]

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Hijacked ELENI P arrives off the coast of Somalia

May 18, 2010 - 19:14

EU NAVFOR can confirm that the hijacked Liberian flagged ELENI P has now arrived off the coast of Somalia and is anchored in the vicinity of Garacad. The Liberian flagged, Eleni P, was reported to have been hijacked 250 nautical miles off the coast of Oman on the morning of 12 May. The bulk carrier […]

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Hijacked Bulgarian flagged ship arrives off the coast of Somalia

May 18, 2010 - 19:07

EU NAVFOR can confirm that the hijacked MV PANEGA has now arrived off the coast of Somalia and is anchored in the vicinity of Garacad. MV PANEGA was hijacked on the afternoon 11th of May in the Gulf of Aden approximately 100 nautical miles east of Aden (Yemen). The ship was on route from the […]

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