Thursday, July 7, 2011

Anti-Sea Piracy Measures

     To control sea piracy thirty countries and multi-national companies have constituted "Combine Maritime Forces" . Under this Task Force 150 and Task Force 151 are important. Task Force 150 works under the "War Against Terrorism Program " the Operation Enduring Freedom. Under this operation the task force 150 and and NATO navy fleet have given the task of monitoring a sea area of 2 million square miles and controlling the sea pirates. The area includes, northern Arabian sea, Indian sea, north Africa (Horn of Africa), gulf of Aden  and Somalian sea borders.
    Task force 150 constituted during operation OEC is active since 2003. This force includes the navy forces and navy ships from USA, Britain, Canada, Autralia, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Korea, Netherlands, Newzealand, Portugal, Spain, Singapore, Turkey and Pakistan.The international Navy military anchored in African country Jaboti located near gulf od Aden, has been commended several times by Pakistan Navy.TF150 contacting directly 5th American Navy Fleet in Bahrain can take strict actions against law-breakers.As the European Union countries fall prey to the sea pirates, therefore they have also their fighter ships fleet of "European Union Naval Forces for Somalia near Somalis sea under "Operation Atlanta". This has been empowered specially for the care and safety of "World Food Program" by Security Council of UN under Resolution 1950 .   

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