The EU Maritime Security Centre â?? Horn of Africa (MSC-HOA) stated last week that a warship operating as part of the EU NAVFOR investigated a suspected pirate skiff with a crew of five in the Gulf of Aden.

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• EU NAVFOR boards Suspected pirates Skiff

     (marinelink)  On the morning of 3 Oct, whilst conducting a patrol in the Gulf of Aden, EU NAVFOR Belgian warship Louise-Marie intercepted a distress call from a merchant vessel transiting in the Gulf of Aden. The merchant vessel reported a skiff, a small boat regularly used by pirates, approaching to 300 meters.  Source

• More Russian ships toward the Gulf of Aden to combat piracy

    The Russian Pacific Fleet has sent more ships to the Indian Ocean to protect civilian vessels from pirate attacks in the Gulf of Aden. The large anti-submarine ship the Marshal Shaposhnikov, a tugboat and the Pechenga tanker have set out for Somali coasts, carrying marines and deck helicopters, the Pacific

• CMA CGM Piracy Increases Risk Surcharge

    CMA CGM will increase its piracy risk surcharge for transporting containers through the Gulf of Aden next month, the French carrier said Tuesday.

• Somali pirates release Greek ship

    Somali pirates have released a Greek-owned ship hijacked five months ago and freed its 21 Filipino crew members, officials and pirates have said. “The MV Irene is free. All 21 crew are safe and sound,” maritime official Andrew Mwangura told AFP news agency. Reuters news agency cited a pirate as

• Intervene Warships Pirate attack

    AN EU NAVFOR ship and helicopter, in cooperation with a South Korean navy helicopter from CTF 151 have responded to an emergency call from a vessels identified only as the “ Southern Cross”. An EU NAVFOR statement says the attack was successfully thwarted by the Southern Cross herself. The EU NAVFOR

• Navy foils pirate attack on tankers in the Gulf of Aden

    The Indian Navy on Monday prevented a pirate attack on a US-owned tanker in the Gulf of Aden off Somalia’s coast. A Navy spokesperson here confirmed the attack on a private tanker that was flying a Norway flag

• NATOs flagship evacuated casualty from merchant ship in pirate waters

     On 31 October, the NATO Flagship in the Gulf of Aden, HMS Cornwall, received an emergency call over the radio from MV APL Hamburg and as she was only some 40 nm away, sprang to her aid. A crew member… Read at NATO flagship evacuates casualty from merchant ship in pirate

• Ethiopian-flagged ship Pirate attack foiled

    An Ethiopian-flagged vessel fought off a pirate attack in the Gulf of Aden earlier this week, the multi-national anti-piracy task force said Thursday. The MV Andinet, part of the Ethiopian Shipping Line, was approached by two pirate skiffs Monday, with one of them coming close enough to fire automatic weapons

• EU NAVFOR Stops Suspected Pirates Again

     (marinelink)  Late afternoon of Sunday 20th of September, a Bulk Carrier reported an approach of a skiff while in the Internationally Recommended Transit Corridor in the Gulf of Aden. On board of the Bulk Carrier a unit of the Yemeni Navy was embarked. On sighting of these military personnel the skiff abandoned the

• EU NAVFOR presumed destroyed more pirate skiffs

    EU NAVFOR units operating in the Somali Basin, between the Seychelles and the Somali coast, have discovered more suspected pirate activity. In an area close to the disruption of 5 pirate attack groups by EU NAVFOR at the weekend, EU NAVFOR German warship FGS EMDEN intercepted a suspect pirate group

• Turkish frigate takes five pirates from Somalia: Army

    A Turkish frigate intercepted a skiff off Somalia and captured five pirates Tuesday on suspicion that they were preparing for attacks, the Turkish military said. The Gaziantep, operating with NATO forces in the region, seized the skiff in the Gulf of Aden with the help of a helicopter and amphibian commandos, the

• Officials say 47 countries that are trying to prevent attacks, pirates far less successful in Somalia

    The State Department says that the United States and 46 other countries have made a significant dent in the percentage of successful pirate attacks off the Horn of Africa. Although the number of pirate attacks is on the rise, fewer of those attacks are successful. The State Department reported Thursday

• EU Naval Force: Somali pirates hijack Saudi Tanker

    Somali pirates have hijacked a Saudi tanker with 14 crew onboard, a spokesman for the European Union Naval Force said Wednesday. The Al Nisr Al Saudi usually carried fuel oil but was empty when it was taken in the Gulf of Aden on Monday, said Cmdr

• Danish troops free pirate ship bulk

    Danish special forces stormed a dry bulk ship Friday after reports that it had been captured by armed Somali pirates, the Associated Press reported. The Danish troops approached the vessel in an inflatable dinghy and scaled the side of it, a naval spokesman said. But there were conflicting accounts as

• China, Russia to hold anti-piracy naval drill Somali coast

    Chinese and Russian naval task forces currently on an anti-piracy mission in the Gulf of Aden will hold joint exercises on September 18, Xinhua news agency has reported. The exercises, dubbed Blue Peace Shield 2009, will take place in the western part of the Gulf of Aden and include the practice