Month: October 2012
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Tanker Released
The Greek-operated tanker hijacked by pirates off the Gulf of Guinea, on Africa’s west coast, has been released. Pirates release tanker off West africa The captain of a Greek-operated tanker […]
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Coast Guard Vessel Capsizes
A South Korean Coast Guard vessel has capsized leaving 3 Filipino and 2 Chinese seafarers dead. 5 seamen Died after Coast Guard vessel capsized A South Korean Coast Guard vessel […]
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Puntland ‘Seizes Arms From Yemen’
Bossaso — Security forces in Somalia’s Puntland autonomous region have seized a depot of arms and bomb material along the country’s northern coastline, in another sign that Al Qaeda militants […]
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Norwegian Frigate to Lead NATO Maritime Group
“The frigate will thus be leading the important task of combating pirate activity off the coast of the Horn of Africa”, says Defence Minister Anne-Grete Strøm-Erichsen. NATO has asked Norway […]
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China Needs Unified Coast Guard
The Diaoyu Islands dispute between China and Japan has been grabbing the headlines. But beyond the top news, some neighboring countries have encroached on China’s islands and reefs, harassed and […]
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Safety at Sea for Pakistan
Since 1980, International Maritime Organisation (IMO), a specialized agency of UN, is celebrating World Maritime Day each year in the last week of September. IMO selected 27th September as World […]
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Pakistan Pledges Help to Somalia
United Nations — With the nine-year-old transitional period in Somalia having ended peacefully, Pakistan pledged all possible support to the African nation which now was on the “cusp of a […]
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IMO threatens to blacklist Sokhna Port
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) threatened Tuesday to put Sokhna Port on its blacklist of unreliable ports as striking workers closed the port for the sixth consecutive day. “We now […]
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Israel Asks UN to Stop Gaza Bound Ship
On Tuesday, Israel’s UN ambassador asked the world body to try to convince a Swedish ship carrying rights’ activists not to try to break the Jewish state’s barricade of the […]
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Task Force 152 Gulf Exercise
Vessels of multiple nations recently joined forces to complete a two day maritime security training exercise in the Gulf. Exercise Falcon Warrior 12-05 was the first of many such events […]
