Tag: Piracy

  • Oil tanker hit by blast at Saudi terminal, Saudi Arabia confirms

    By Jonathan Saul, Lisa Barrington LONDON/DUBAI (Reuters) – An explosion damaged a Greek-managed tanker at a Saudi Arabian terminal on the Red Sea just north of the Yemeni border, the […]

  • ReCAAP reports on Singapore Strait

    Since 2019 through 2020, there is a sharp increase in the number of incidents of robbery and theft against ships while underway in the Singapore Strait (SS), compared to the […]

  • USS Barry returns to the South China Sea

    By: Lt.j.g. Samuel Hardgrove, USS Barry SOUTH CHINA SEA – After conducting its fourth routine transit through the Taiwan Strait this year, Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Barry (DDG 52) […]

  • Combined Maritime Forces in large drug seizure

    Combined Maritime Forces seize over 450kg Methamphetamine and 360kg heroin in third drug bust since October A French ship operating in support of a Combined Maritime Forces (CMF) task force […]

  • India joins trilateral naval drills amid China tensions

    Cheena Kapoor Amid high border tensions with China, India is participating in a two-day trilateral maritime naval exercise which commences in the Arabian Sea on Sunday, confirmed the Indian Navy. […]

  • Coalition Task Force Sentinel Change of Command

    Media Release MANAMA, Bahrain – Coalition Task Force (CTF) Sentinel held a change of command ceremony between two British officers at Naval Support Activity Bahrain November 19. The transfer of […]

  • Russia to Build Naval Facility in Sudan

    By Kester Kenn Klomegah Emerging from the first Russia-Africa Summit held in Sochi a year ago, Russia will make one huge stride by establishing a naval facility in Sudan. This […]

  • Yemeni officials repeat warnings over Safer oil tanker

    Saeed Al-Batati Iran-backed Houthi’s use of naval mines and bomb boats, and the group’s resistance to maintaining the Safer tanker are serious threatens to international maritime traffic and ecological life […]

  • Nimitz Strike Group Participates in Malabar with Australia, India and Japan

    NORTHERN ARABIAN SEA– Sailors and Marines assigned to Nimitz Carrier Strike Group, joined Australian, Indian, Japanese maritime forces for Phase II of Malabar 2020 in the Northern Arabian Sea, Nov. […]

  • Navies of India, US, Japan, Australia to begin second phase of Malabar Exercise

    NEW DELHI: The second phase of the Malabar Naval exercise including Australia, Japan and the US, is scheduled to be held in the Arabian Sea on Tuesday and will continue […]