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FCDO travel advice for Tanzania. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.
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FCDO travel advice for Mozambique. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.
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A safety message to the fishing industry on the importance of keeping crew separate from the backrope and pots as they are deploying.
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Two dozen merchant sailors have been freed from a hijacked ship in the Indian Ocean this week, thanks to a Royal Navy and Royal Marines boarding team.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
The Royal Navy warship HMS Montrose prevented a gang of suspected pirates from entering the Indian Ocean to attack merchant ships yesterday, Wednesday 14 October 2010.
A Royal Fleet Auxiliary vessel, deployed as part of an international naval task force operating in the Somali Basin, has located, boarded and destroyed a pirate vessel found to be carrying assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades.
British warship HMS Montrose came to the aid of the German-owned ship MV Beluga Fortune yesterday after she had been attacked by armed pirates in the Indian Ocean.
Foreign Office Minister Henry Bellingham gave a speech to the British Chamber of Shipping on the UK Government’s response to counter-piracy.
A group of suspected pirates caught by a Royal Navy operation in the Indian Ocean will face justice in the Seychelles.
A boarding team from HMS Somerset has liberated a large fishing dhow, which had been taken over by a group of armed Somalis a few days earlier, over 100 miles (160km) off the coast of Somalia.
Royal Navy Type 22 frigate HMS Chatham, currently deployed as NATO's counter-piracy flagship, has destroyed two boats after intercepting a group of suspected pirates in the Somali Basin.
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