Over the past few weeks, the EUROMARFOR warship ESPS Navarra (In the EUNAVFOR task force), has carried out several friendly approaches to fishing dhows off the northern coast of Somalia.

On 2 December the Flagship of EU Naval Force ITS Andrea Doria paid a port visit to Djibouti. Rear Admiral Rando visited Brigadier-General Philippe Montocchio, the Commander of French Forces in Djibouti.

During their recent port visit to Dar es Salaam, the EU Naval Force flagship (EUROMARFOR flagship), ITS Andrea Doria conducted Local Maritime Capacity Building (LMCB) training with personnel from the Tanzanian People’s Defence Force.  The tr

During the last week EUROMARFOR warship, ESPS Navarra, invited local Somali leaders on board in order to help build relations between the EU Naval Force and the Somali people.

On the 25th of November 2014, EUROMARFOR participated in the "Youth and European Defense” forum that has been organised by the French Defense Commission “Youth and Defense” in the French “Ecole Militaire” in Paris.      

The Council has extended the EU’s counter-piracy Operation Atalanta by two more years, until 12 December 2016. The Operation’s main focus is the protection of World Food Programme vessels delivering humanitarian aid to Somalia; and the deterrence, repression and disruption of piracy off the Somali coast. In addition, Operation Atalanta contributes to the monitoring of fishing activities off the coast of Somalia.

The EUROMARFOR military-political meeting took place in Paris on 20th November 2014.

Spanish Navy’s Meteoro class Offshore patrol vessel Rayo P42 waved goodbye to its Las Palmas Naval Base this morning. The vessel started its journey to the Indian Ocean where it will participate in EU NAVFOR’s Operation Atalanta under EUROMARFOR flag.

On Monday 10th November, the EUROMARFOR Flagship, ITS Andrea Doria, and the Chinese Flagship CNS Changbaishan met at sea in the Gulf of Aden.

The Commander of Chinese Naval Escort Task Group 989, Rear Admiral Zhuang Chuanshu, and the Commanding Officer of CNS Changbaishan, Captain Deng Xianwu, took the opportunity  to visit the EU Flag Ship and to conduct a courtesy visit on the Commander of EUROMARFOR Task Group and EU Force Commander, Rear Admiral Guido Rando. This was the second time that the force commanders were able to meet at sea since Rear Admiral Rando assumed the Force Command of EU Naval Force in August 2014.

On Sunday 9 November the Spanish Ambassador to Oman, His Excellency Mr Juan José Urtasun, paid a visit to ESPS Navarra during her port visit to Muscat, Oman. Port visits such as this are an opportunity to resupply the Spanish warship with food and stor

ITS Andrea Doria, EUROMARFOR Task Group flagship, has completed her visit to Dubai.  The Italian Navy destroyer was in port to participate in the UAE counter-piracy week between Monday 27 and Friday 31 October.

The Spanish Navy frigate ‘Navarra’, of the EUROMARFOR Task Group, integrated into the counter-piracy operation ‘Atalanta’ in the Indian Ocean has organized a training session with Tanzanian Navy servicemen during a port visit to Dar es Salaam.

After completing counter-piracy patrols in the Indian Ocean, ESPS Navarra (EUROMARFOR task group ship inside the EUNAVFOR task force), entered the port of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, to re-supply the ship.

A delegation of EEAS and internation press representatived visited the EUROMARFOR flagship (and EUNAVFOR force flagship) on Operation Atalanta.

The winter meeting of the EUROMARFOR subworking group (SWG) took place in Paris on 23th October 2014.

After two and a half month since she joined the EU Naval Force, ESPS Navarra, a ship of the EUROMARFOR Task Group, has paid a visit to Port Victoria in the Seychelles.

ITS Andrea Doria replenishes at sea from USS W. S. Diehl.

On Saturday 18 October sailors from the EUROMARFOR flagship, within EU Naval Force, ESPS Navarra, embarked on the Danish frigate HDMS Esbern Snare.

On Thursday 16th October 2014 the EUROMARFOR and European Union Naval Force flagship, ITS Andrea Doria and Japanese Navy warship, JS Takanami, which is currently deployed with Combined Maritime Force CTF151, carried out a counter-piracy exercise at sea in the Gulf of Aden.

Rear Admiral Marcial Gamboa Pérez-Pardo assumed duties as Chief of the Naval Staff Fleet and Chief of Staff of COMEUROMARFOR on 3 october 2014.

ALFLOT, Admiral Bolíbar, completes the first year of Command of EUROMARFOR