NEW DELHI: India will host navies from at least 16 countries for an eight-day mega naval exercise from March 6 with an aim to expand regional cooperation and combat unlawful…

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On 23rd February at 0030 local time, the Motor Tanker Leopard Sun was attacked by two skiffs 160 nautical miles off the coast of Somalia. The Singapore flagged 50,000 metric…

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The US State Department has made a determination approving a potential foreign military sale of fast patrol boats to Kuwait under a package worth around $100 million, the Defense Security…

House committee accuses transport ministry of secretly granting cabotage waivers to foreigners Eromosele Abiodun The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, thursday revealed that certain individuals and vested interest profiting from…

The former commander in chief of the German Fleet said that maritime security needs to be viewed with the same complexity and interconnectedness as one would view the world wide…

One of the greatest challenges to the maritime industry in Southeast Asia is piracy, especially in the archipelagos of Indonesia/Philippines/Brunei/East Malaysia and that of Malaysia/Singapore. The Straits of Malacca is…

En organisant le 23 février des élections législatives factices, le régime djiboutien confirme son mépris de toute forme de démocratie et de libertés. La simulation ne trompe personne, elle souligne…

Three years after the Pakistani parliament passed a resolution declaring neutrality in the conflict between a Saudi Arabia-led coalition and Yemen’s Houthi rebels, the country has agreed to send more…

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Counter Piracy (CP) Focused Operation (FO) HAMAD, run by Combined Task Force (CTF) 151, has successfully concluded, with the specific aim of keeping piracy suppressed in the Socotra Gap, the…

  Piracy incidents in the Gulf of Guinea over the past six months (since 16 August 2017) have remained concentrated in Nigerian territorial waters (TTW), especially south of Port Harcourt…

SAVED by boiling water. Quick-thinking Filipino sailors prevented their own abduction last week by pouring hot water over a group of suspected Abu Sayyaf bandits as they tried to board…

Stamping out piracy off the Somali coast is making a significant dent in the number of annual global piracy cases, but a downturn in oil prices is leading to a…

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres notified the Security Council on Tuesday of his intention to appoint former British diplomat Martin Griffiths as his new envoy charged…

As a result of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent trip to Oman — part of a broader Middle Eastern tour — New Delhi and Muscat finalized an agreement that will see…

Precious Akutamadu Mr Chidi Izuwah, Acting Director-General of Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC), has said that the issue of security is one of the major challenges of Nigeria Port Authority(NPA)…

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During the period 29 Jan – 02 Feb EU NAVFOR and Combined Task Force-151 (CTF-151) brought their warships, helicopters, aircraft and military personnel together to conducted focused counter-piracy operations around the…