MANILA, Philippines – About 18 Chinese vessels are intruding into Philippine territory, raising the need to pour more resources to defense spending, a security official said Thursday. Vicente Agdamag, Deputy Director-General of the National Security Council Secretariat, said the deployment of the ships is in line with China’s aim to consolidate its control over the [...]
Continue Reading →The Djiboutian Navy has taken delivery of a new Regional Maritime Awareness Capability surveillance system from the United States Army’s Combined Joint Task Force Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA). Djiboutian Navy operations officer Lieutenant Omar Ali said the new maritime surveillance system will enable his force to monitor piracy, terrorism, smuggling and other maritime crimes in [...]
Continue Reading →On 4 June 2013, two merchant vessels reported being attacked in vicinity of 15:20N 041:50E in the Red Sea, approximately 185 nm northwest of the Bab el Mandeb. Mariners should remain vigilant for the potential presence of a pirate attack group in the southern Red Sea. The area will remain at high risk for at [...]
Continue Reading →MANILA has agreed to increasing the presence of American troops in the Philippines amid the growing tensions over the territorial disputes in the West Philippine Sea, Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin and Sunday. In a meeting in Singapore, US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel also expressed Washington’s readiness to help improve the Philippines’ defense capability by providing [...]
Continue Reading →West African heads of state will meet, maybe as soon as this month, to adopt a code to fight growing piracy in their coastal waters that would include use of arrests, prosecutions and seizures of ships, the U.N. shipping agency said. Piracy is on the increase in the Gulf of Guinea region, which includes Africa’s [...]
Continue Reading →A vessel tracking device has been installed within the territorial waters of Ghana to provide surveillance on the movement of vessels and to detect hijacking or piracy. The monitoring facility, which is in the form of a satellite system has been installed at Keta and Saltpond and is monitored in a control room of the [...]
Continue Reading →Abu Dhabi: Despite decreases in successful naval piracy attempts in the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea over the last two years, international experts have urged greater regional cooperation to eliminate this security threat. They also told Gulf News on the sideline of a symposium on Tuesday that the UAE is playing a vital role [...]
Continue Reading →PORT OF SPAIN – U.S. Vice President Biden met on Tuesday with the Prime Ministers, Presidents, and senior ministry personnel from 15 Caribbean nations in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, where they discussed the comprehensive regional partnership to improve citizen security in the Caribbean. Working together in support of the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative [...]
Continue Reading →ABIDJAN (Reuters) – As the afternoon sun glinted off the waters in Ivory Coast’s port of Abidjan, a team of gendarmes set out in a leaky wooden pirogue with no weapons and nothing more than mobile phones for communication. Their mission: to hold the front line against piracy in the world’s new hotspot for maritime [...]
Continue Reading →Manama:A major international navy drill, the largest of its kind in the Gulf, has been hailed as highly successful. The International Mine Countermeasures Exercise 2013 (IMCMEX 13) that brought together more than 40 nations concluded at US Naval Forces Central Command in the Bahraini capital Manama on Thursday after two weeks of seminars and training [...]
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