Hunt of the Sea Wolves (Free subscription) | yesterday
GMA News NATO warships sailed into the Suez Canal on Wednesday headed for Somalia to protect shipping from a growing pirate threat, the alliance’s spokesman said. A flotilla of seven NATO ships steamed toward the Gulf of Aden after last week’s decision by defense ministers to provide protection against pirates who have seized almost 30 ships this [...]
THE TENSION (Free subscription) | yesterday
HMCS Ville de Québec, an SNMG1 ship, was re-routed by the Government of Canada on Aug. 5, to escort World Food Program ships off the coast of Somalia. Here Ville de Québec is escorting the merchant vessel Abdul Rahman and her load of World Food Program maize and soy meal from Mombasa, Kenya, to Mogadishu, Somalia. SNMG2 will be escorting WFP ships as part of its anti-piracy mandate. (NATO photo by...
EagleSpeak (Free subscription) | yesterday
The EU says its naval force for pirate fighting will be ready in December, but NATO has a force currently enroute:A flotilla of seven NATO ships was steaming toward the Gulf of Aden following last week’s decision by defense ministers to provide protection against pirates who have seized almost 30 ships this year. Alliance spokesman James Appathurai said NATO ships will escort U.N. boats carrying
World Nuclear News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Electrabel has reacted strongly against a plan from the Belgian government to force a one-off payment of €250 million from nuclear power generators. The company's parent, GdF-Suez plans to challenge the rule in the Constitutional Court.
People Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
Seven NATO ships are transiting through the Suez Canal to conduct anti-piracy patrols off Somalia and visit NATO partner nations in the Gulf, the alliance said Wednesday. Details of how the group will conduct the anti-piracy mission and carry out a number of port visits are still being finalized, NATO spokesman James Appathurai told a briefing. The seven ships are from Britain, Germany, Greece, Italy,...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 13/10/2008
The Suez Canal continues to play a key roll in global transportation - but regular passenger ships have been replaced by supertankers, Christian Fraser discovers.
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 13/10/2008
MOSCOW, Oct 13 (Reuters) - Russian gas export monopoly Gazprom may get a 27 percent stake in Canada's Rabaska liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, a top executive of France's GDF Suez was quoted as saying on Monday.
EagleSpeak (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
Reported initially as a "Greek tanker" here:A maritime official says a Greek chemical tanker with 20 crew members has been hijacked by armed pirates in the Gulf of Aden near Somalia. Noel Choong of the International Maritime Bureau says the ship was sailing from Southeast Asia to the Suez Canal when it was seized late on Friday. Greek official deny the tanker is Greek, as set out here:
Doug Ross @ Journal (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
Shirat Devorah researched the various articles surrounding the recent Somali hijacking of an Iranian vessel and came to an ominous conclusion. On August 21st, 2008, the MV Iran Deyant, 44,458 dead weight bulk carrier was heading towards the Suez Canal. As it was passing the Horn of Africa, about 80 miles southeast of al-Makalla in Yemen, the ship was surrounded by speedboats filled with members
Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
PARIS, October 10 (RIA Novosti) - GDF Suez S.A. is interested in large-scale deliveries of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the Gazprom-controlled Shtokman gas condensate field in the Arctic, the French-Belgian energy company's vice president said on Friday.
Hunt of the Sea Wolves (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Bloomberg The United Nations Security Council asked all nations to “take part actively” in the fight against piracy off the coast of Somalia in a bid to address a growing problem for shipping through the Suez Canal and Gulf of Aden. The Security Council voted 15 to 0 today to adopt a resolution, drafted by France, that [...]
UruK---Wonderful World & metakrisis (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
On August 21st, 2008, the MV Iran Deyant, 44,458 dead weight bulk carrier was heading towards the Suez Canal. As it was passing the Horn of Africa, about 80 miles southeast of al-Makalla in Yemen, the ship was surrounded by speedboats filled with members of a gang of Somalia pirates who grab suitable commercial ships and hold them,, and their cargos and crews for ransom. The captain was defenseless...
THE TENSION (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
In this file photo, the amphibious transport dock ship USS San Antonio (LPD 17) transits through the Suez Canal. San Antonio is deployed as part of the Iwo Jima Expeditionary Strike Group supporting maritime security operations (MSO) in the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet area of operations. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jason R. Zalasky.) F ocus on Defense: ABOARD USS SAN ANTONIO,...
oil and energy news (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
The Associated Press SOFIA, Bulgaria: Bulgaria has chosen Germany’s RWE AG as a strategic investor in the country’s second nuclear plant, the government said Friday. RWE outbid rival Belgian energy company Electrabel, owned by France’s GDF Suez SA, for a 49 percent stake in the Belene Power Company, which will own and operate the new nuclear power [...]
Daily Express (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
A new insight into a secret military pact hushed up by the Government during the Suez Crisis has been revealed.
