Month: September 2013

  • HMS Artful to be officially named

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    New Royal Navy submarine HMS Artful, the latest one of the seven vessels to form the updated fleet, is being officially named later. Submarine HMS Artful to be officially named […]

  • Russia ‘seizes’ Greenpeace ship after Arctic rig protest

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    Greenpeace says 30 activists, including six Britons, are being held at gunpoint by Russian security officers who stormed the group’s ship in the Arctic. Russia ‘seizes’ Greenpeace ship after Arctic […]

  • Spirit of Cooperation

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    The recent highly successful Offshore Patrol Vessel presented by the Nigerian Navy welcomed in the Spirit of Cooperation the advancement of the Gulf of Guinea Critical Gas and Oil Infrastructure-Task […]

  • Stolen Nigerian crude oil

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    Nigeria lost at least 100,000 barrels of oil per day, around 5% of total output, in the first quarter of 2013 to theft from its onshore and swamp operations alone, […]

  • AFRICOM Command Sgt. Maj. visits CJTF-HOA

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    Army Command Sgt. Maj. Darrin Bohn, senior enlisted leader for U.S. Africa Command, made his first official visit to Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa, this week. AFRICOM Command Sgt. […]

  • USA: Row over lessons on disputed waters

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    A dispute over the naming of waters off the coast of Japan, the Sea of Japan or the East Sea, has flared up in US schools – nearly 7,000 miles away, […]

  • Counter Piracy Task Forces meet up

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    Counter Piracy Task Force Commanders from NATO and the Combined Maritime Forces recently met to discuss how best to combat the threat of piracy from around the Somalian coast. Counter […]

  • Safe from Piracy

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    As Commaner of Port Victoria, Captain Gerry Northwood went pirate hunting in the Indian Ocean. Over a four-month period he captured nearly 50 Somali pirates, with more than 30 ending […]

  • $78 Million in Drugs

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    USS Rentz and its embarked Coast Guard law enforcement detachment have transferred $78 Million in confiscated cocaine to the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Forward in the Western Caribbean 4th Fleet […]

  • NATO thanks Djibouti

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    NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and the President of Djibouti discussed counter-piracy efforts off the Horn of Africa and the situation in Somalia during the president’s visit to NATO […]

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