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Counter Piracy: OOS

 

Counter Terrorism: OAE

 Global Maritime Risks  

Conter-piracy

Active Endeavour

Gulf of Guinea

 

Operation Ocean Shield (OOS) is NATO’s counter piracy mission in the Gulf of Aden and off the Horn of Africa.

NATO Shipping Centre has been helping to deter and disrupt pirate attacks, while protecting vessels and helping to increase the general level of security in the region since 2008.

Read more about OOS

Read our Guidance for OOS

Operation Active Endeavour (OAE) is NATO's maritime operation in the Mediterranean Sea and its mission is to show resolve against terrorism.

Ships in the Mediterranean are invited to send information to us, through our Merchant Report form.

Read more about OAE

Read our Guidance for OAE

 

 

The NSC, as NATO’s permanent merchant shipping information fusion centre, is tasked to provide guidance and act as an advisor to merchant shipping on potential risks.

In this capacity we support the Interim Guidelines for the Gulf of Guinea, developed by the shipping industry - We also cooperate with organisations dealing with maritime security in areas such as Southeast Asia.

Read more about NSC support of Interim Guidelines for the Gulf of Guinea

 

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NEWS

Intelligent Routing

 

Read our latest newsletter

 

Conter-piracy

Webpage

 

 

Since 2008, international naval forces have worked with the shipping industry and individual companies to combat piracy in the High Risk Area. Four specialist organizations work together to support merchant shipping on a day to day basis – the NSC, MSCHOA, UKMTO and MARLO.

These organizations provide a range of products and services to companies, ships’ masters and their service providers to assist them in planning and conducting a safe passage through the Piracy High Risk Area (HRA).

We have created a document that describes these tools and how they support the various stages of a transit through the HRA.

Download the document here

The newsletter for April and May has been issued.

This month it features news from around the world as our Branch head chairs his last Nato Shipping Working Group in New York. 

There is also a pirate update, information on our new web page and the new tool - intelligent routing.

Read it here

 

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GUIDANCE AND PRODUCTS

Piracy Alerts

Details on alerts issued on incidents in the HRA. New alerts can be provided by RSS by clicking on the RSS button above the map.

Dhow Project

Information on the Dhow Project and links to our Fishing Templates, Dhow Flashcards, Dhow and Skiff Recognition Chart, Dhow and Skiff Recognition guide and The Dhow Database.

 

Updates and PAM

 

Link to our Daily and Weekly updates, and Piracy Activity Map (PAM)

Gulf of Guinea

 

Link to the NSC supported Interim Guidelines for the Gulf Of Guinea

Piracy statistics

Here you can find our monthly Piracy statistics.

Newsletter

On a monthly basis the NATO Shipping Centre produces and distibutes a newsletter. This newsletter gives both a summary of special topics, and a reminder of the products provided by the NSC.