Despite overall piracy incidents declining in 2019, there was an alarming increase in crew kidnappings across the Gulf of Guinea, according to the International Chamber ..
Tag: Indian Ocean
Damen Shipyards Galati has launched the second 2,000-tonne corvette ordered from the company by the Pakistan Ministry of Defence. The multi-purpose warship utilises the ..
The largest ever Australian naval fleet arrived in India this week to conduct the biennial AUSINDEX naval exercises with the Indian Navy. The size and shape of this ..
Piracy is a scourge that just will not go away, with the Gulf of Guinea now replacing the coast of Somalia as a “hotspot” that is frightening seafarers tasked with ..
A total of 24 people were rescued from a Japanese fishing vessel that caught fire in the Indian Ocean on Tuesday, July 16.
At the end of last month, the African archipelago nation of Mauritius secured a legal victory in its territorial and maritime disputes against its former coloniser, the ..
For those who don’t know of Sanya, it is a city on the South coast of the Chinese island of Hainan which sits at the northern end of the South China Sea, not far ..
Long time readers of this website’s predecessor magazine Fishing Boat World may recall a series of articles in its August and September 2000 issues. They were ..
There were some significant aspects to the major exercise, dubbed Velyat 97, held by the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy (IRIN), between February 21 and 23, 2019.
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