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Forecast for 6–12 OCT 2011 via Maritime OPINTEL Report

Piracy To Heat Up As Monsoon Season Ends

By On October 6, 2011

NATO’s Rear Admiral Hank Ort (NLD N) this week warned that pirate activity in the Gulf of Aden, Indian Ocean and Arabian Sea is likely to increase as monsoon season [...]

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Ship owners pressure governments to step up fight against piracy

By On May 9, 2011

USS Bulkeley (DDG 84) approaches the Japanese-owned commercial oil tanker M/V Guanabara. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Anna Wade/Released) Ship owners are stepping up pressure on governments [...]

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Piracy threat increases as monsoon season comes to close

By On October 7, 2010

Image Source: U.S. Navy The U. S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration and NATO Shipping Centre have issued a warning of an anticipated increase of piracy in the Gulf of [...]

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Danes Sink Pirate Mothership

By On March 1, 2010

  This just in from Bitter End: The Seattle Times is reporting: A NATO destroyer has sunk a pirate mothership in the Indian Ocean off the Somali coast after allowing [...]

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Blackwater to Provide Assistance in Gulf of Aden

By On October 23, 2008

These days, it is impossible to watch or read any news publication, maritime or not, and not know about pirates operating in the Gulf of Aden.  The hijacking of the [...]

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Chinese Sub and the Carrier Group

By On November 15, 2007

While we have been preoccupied with the Bay Bridge Allision readers of our Maritime News Discoverer know of this troubling news from the pacific; When the U.S. Navy deploys a [...]

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