Tag: Indian Ocean

NATO, Seychelles to conduct anti- piracy operations

Western Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami hazard potential

New Commander of Combined Task Force 150

NATO Indian Ocean Task Force involved in dramatic rescue of burning bulk carrier

India: focus on maritime security in Indian Ocean region

Preparation of company, crew for the contingency of hijack by pirates

Somalia: Ships, Yachts Now Safer On Indian Ocean

EU Launches New Piracy-Monitoring Mission In Horn Of Africa, Indian Ocean States

UNODC Counter Piracy Programme is offering its support to Indian Ocean The Regional Learning and Experience Exchange Workshop of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) started on Tuesday and will end on Friday.The UNODC Counter Piracy Programme is offering its support to Indian Ocean states which are prosecuting piracy cases.The workshop has two related aims: the support of regional piracy prosecutions, and the delivery of additional prison capacity in Somalia through the Piracy Prisoner Transfer Programme.Sergeant Ronny Narain from the Mauritius Police Force said that "there are 20 international participants in this workshop and they have been in Mauritius since last Friday and will remain here till Saturday."Mauritius has agreed to accept piracy suspects for prosecution from the many international navies operating in the Indian Ocean.Narain said, "Limitations for the regional states in accepting Somali pirates for prosecution is the impact on their prisons which are often already crowded with domestic prisoners."This workshop will explain how to tackle the pirates' arrests, their prosecution and their conviction.The UNODC police mentors will work with IMO to develop first-rate training for maritime justice practitioners based in the region, helping them to develop the instruments to respond to piracy and other ...

After months of uneventful patrolling in the northern Mozambique Channel, the call to action for the South African Navy (SAN) came in early April. Somali-based pirates launched an unsuccess- ful attack on a merchant ship from the Philippines at the northern entrance to the channel.Perhaps ironically, the SAN vessel on patrol duty was not one of the country's four modern frigates. They had all done antipiracy patrols in the area, under Operation Copper, and, to give the frigate squadron a break, the navy had sent its replenishment tanker (officially designated as combat support ship by the SAN), the SAS Drakensberg, to shoulder the burden. South African-designed and -built in Durban, the Drakensberg can carry two Denel Oryx helicopters from the South African Air Force's 22 Squadron, as well as a number of troops. Thus, anti-piracy operations are well within her capabilities.The pirate mother ship was found by a French Navy patrol aircraft on the third day after the attempted attack. A multinational operation followed, involving the Drakensberg, the Tanzanian Navy (which only operates coastal and inshore patrol boats) and the European Union's (EU's) Naval Force Somalia (better known by its code name, Atalanta).For 24 hours, the Drakensberg and its Oryx ...