Save Our Seafarers

Commenting on yesterdays's EU Navfor attack on pirate equipment on the Somali shore, Dave Heindel, chairof the ITF (International Transport Workers' Federation) seafarers' section, said:.

Earlier today following the decision taken on 23 March 2012 by the Council of the European Union to allow the EU Naval Force to take disruption action against known pirate supplies on the shore, EU forces conducted an operation to....

The SaveOurSeafarers (SOS) campaign has been honoured with a Seatrade Award for its significant contribution in the fight against Somali piracy..

A European Union naval vessel rescued an Iranian fishing dhow that was being used by Somali pirates as a "mothership" for attacks on other boats, the EU Naval Force (EU NAVFOR) said on Saturday.

MT Smyrni seized off Oman in first successful attack on an oil tanker in Horn of Africa in a year.

Somali pirates captured on the high seas and prosecuted in other countries are now being transferred to a new prison in Somalia. It's a significant change for countries combating piracy but are seeing their own jail systems....

Very few of the Somali-based pirates who plague the Indian Ocean have been brought to justice, partly as a result of the lack of government in Somalia. But several are being held at Hargeisa prison in Somaliland - an....

The family of a South African couple abducted by Somali pirates over a year and a half ago has finally received fresh proof of life. Bruno Pelizzari and Debbie Calitz were taken hostage off the Gulf of Aden in October 2010..