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Naval Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari says the Iranian Navy’s rescue operations for Iran-owned ships attacked by pirates in the Gulf of Aden have amazed regional countries. “In those operations, all countries, especially regional ones, were amazed by Iran’s power, wondering how Iran had been able to carry out rescue operations without harming the ships, …

By: Keith Campbell For European defence aeronautical company Airbus Military, the focus regarding South Africa is now on the light/medium aircraft category, for both transport and mari- time patrol. This was confirmed recently, in Toulouse, France, by Airbus Military CEO Domingo Ureña. He also affirmed that his company and South Africa had agreed to draw a line …

By; Abdalle Ahmed Bandar Beyla (RBC) The commissioner of Bandar beyla district in Somalia’s northeastern region of Puntland has echoed that foreign vessels are increasingly coming into Somalia waters and continue looting the fish as they also dump toxic wastes into the seas, RBC Radio reports. “In the night we can see huge number of …

By David Collins Government lawyers are working with Interpol to extradite the Somali gang, who are in custody in Kenya Pirates accused of kidnapping a British couple off Somalia could be hauled to the UK to stand trial. Paul and Rachel Chandler were seized from their yacht and held in Africa for a year before being …

The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) held its Annual General Meeting in Port Douglas, Queensland, from 24 to 25 May, hosted by the Australian Shipowners’ Association.  The meeting was held back-to-back with the AGM of the Asian Shipowners’ Forum (ASF) which comprises the national shipowners’ associations of Asia. At the ICS AGM, national shipowners’ associations …

With limited alternatives to by-pass the dangerous waters zone, the supply chains in the Middle East are facing increased risk from piracy, said a report released at the fourth ‘GPCA Supply Chain Conference’ held in Dubai this month. The report entitled ‘Managing Supply Chain Risk: Understanding Piracy Threat,’ which was prepared by Gulf Petrochemicals and …

Mohamed Al-Samei (author), Muaad Al-Maqtari (author) SANA’A — Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for a May 20 attack targeting American military advisors in Hodeida. A security source in Hodeida said that the American advisors were on a military training mission for the Yemeni Coast Guard. The attack left three of the four advisors wounded, contrasting earlier security reports that said …

The European Union, not often thought of as a warlike body, has done the international community an important service by making the first armed attack, from the air, on the onshore refuges of Somali pirates last week – a new, but overdue step in the protection of commercial shipping around the Horn of Africa.   …

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 …

UNITED NATIONS, May 16 (APP): Pakistan Tuesday urged the Somali government for help in freeing Pakistani and other hostages being held by pirates, while stressing the need for countering the menace off the African country’s coast and in the Gulf of Aden.  “Any help that the government of Somalia can possibly extend in this regard …