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A team of six U.S. Coast Guard instructors began a 4-week U.S. Coast Guard Boarding Officer training for 24 Nigerian...
Read moreNavies are expensive to operate even in peacetime, they require long-term planning, work, and funding. Yet they remain crucial to...
Read moreThe Nigerian Navy (NN) intends to procure two new offshore patrol vessels (OPV). According to remarks by the Chief of...
Read moreMozambique Navy is small, and like all other navies in the Southern African region except South Africa itself, the navy...
Read moreU.S. Navy’s USS Hershel “Woody” Williams arrives Nigeria’s commercial capital city of Lagos on Saturday for maritime training in the...
Read moreThe Nigerian Navy yesterday, 5 August, accepted into service 21 gunboats, 14 operational patrol boats, seven house boats and four...
Read moreSAS Makhanda a Warrior-class strike craft is now in Mozambican waters as part of the maritime contingent of the Southern African Development...
Read moreSailors and officers of a South Korean navy (ROKS) destroyer "Munmu" have contracted the coronavirus operating off the Somalian Coast,...
Read moreAs Ghana slowly emerge as the centerpiece for maritime security in the Gulf of Guinea, particularly in the aftermath of...
Read moreThe Egyptian Navy has received its fourth Type 209 submarine "S44" from Thyssenkrupp Marine Systems, following strict coronavirus prevention measures...
Read moreVSE Corporation will continue to provide technical assistance to the Egyptian Navy under the US FMS programme. The United States...
Read moreTunisia has launched the fifth Istiklal 27.5 meter patrol boat 'Douga P214' for its Navy.The Tunisian-made boat was launched yesterday...
Read morePakistan Navy Ship Zulfiquar with its embarked helicopter visited Tunisia on the 5th of July, as part of Pakistani Navy...
Read moreGlobal aerospace and technology company, Paramount Group has announced its Platinum Sponsorship of the upcoming International Maritime Defense Exhibition and...
Read moreEgyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has inaugurated a new naval Base called ‘3rd of July Military Base’, located in the Mediterranean...
Read moreTo enhance its amphibious operations, the Nigerian Navy has launched a new Landing Ship Tank (LST) at Damen Shipyard, Sharjah,...
Read moreFollowing the successful acquisition of NNS Lana OSV 190 SC-WB, a hydrographic and oceanographic research vessel from OCEA's line of...
Read moreNNS Lana (A499), the Nigerian Navy’s new hydrographic survey vessel arrived in Lagos yesterday (17 May) from her maiden homeward...
Read moreExercise Phoenix Express 2021, the 16th iteration of the North African maritime exercise begins May 17, 2021, in Tunis, Tunisia,...
Read moreThe Tunisian Ministry of Defence (MoD) last week attended the launch ceremony of the patrol Boat "El Jem", the 4th...
Read more*Featured image for illustrative purposes With the conclusion of a two-day Nigerian Navy (NN) Retreat 2021 held at new Conference...
Read moreThe Congolese navy has begun operating several BK-10 (Project 02450) assault boats recently acquired from Russia. Last year April, Russia’s...
Read moreThe second of the two Italian-built FREMM frigates (ENS Bernees) bought by Egypt arrived at the naval base in Alexandria...
Read moreThe Nigerian Navy has received its hydrographic research vessel (NNS LANA) from French shipbuilder OCEA. NNS Lana was received today...
Read moreTo better carry out its maritime duties, the Senegalese Navy has taken delivery of an RPB 33 patrol boat "Taouay"...
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