ADMIRALTY Maritime Security Planning Charts contain safety-critical information to assist bridge crews in the planning of safe passages through high risk areas. All information has been gathered by the UKHO through work with NATO and other government organisations, ensuring each chart has the most accurate, up-to-date and verified information...
Spanish tuna vessels, which had to stop fishing in the Indian Ocean last November having exhausted their quota, have resumed catching in the tropical waters, with a new threat of piracy and as skipjack prices fall.
Aden – During the final days of 2017, IOM, the UN Migration Agency succeeded in completing two movements of stranded Somalis and Ethiopians out of Yemen, despite immense security challenges and difficult sea conditions.
Royal Australian Navy has seized almost eight tonnes of hashish heroin The illegal drugs, worth $415 million, were found in ships in the Arabian SeaMarks the largest ever haul of hashish seized by Australian ship in Middle East
The hijacking of a small Iranian fishing vessel off Somalia, was the latest incident in a series of hijackings in the so-called High Risk Area (HRA) off Somalia. Although the region had seen piracy incidents decreasing, in recent times they have been revived.
In its weekly report for 2-9 January 2018, the ReCAAP ISC informed of an incident involving the tug boat ‘Crest Spartan 8’, while underway approximately 13 nm west of Kutubdia Island, Bangladesh, on 31 December.
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