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On the 21 of January, the Spanish support ship finished as an EU NAVFOR warship after 42 days of operations and supporting EU NAVFOR. During this high tempo operational period she has spent a good deal of her time protecting the Internationally Recommended Transit Corridor.

On the 20 January, the Belgium frigate finished as an EU NAVFOR warship after 91 days of proudly flying the European Flag.

On the 20 January, the French frigate JACOUBET finished as an EUNAVFOR warship after 33 days proudly flying the European Flag.

As reported earlier, the Product Tanker MV MOTIVATOR was released from pirate control earlier this week.

Between the 11 and 18 January 2011, the EU NAVFOR Italian warship ITS Zeffiro and the Spanish warship SPS CANARIAS successfully completed the escort of the MV MASAR TRADE, chartered by the United Nations World Food Program (WFP).

On 13 January 2011, Rear Admiral Thomas J. Ernst (German Navy) handed over the responsibility of Deputy Operation Commander of the European Union Naval Force Somalia, Operation ATALANTA to Rear Admiral Guido Rando (Italian Navy).

On 6 January, the MV FRONT WARRIOR and the MV BW AUSTRIA defeated pirate attacks through the use of Best Management Practices(http://www.mschoa.org/bmp3/Pages/BestManagementPractises.aspx).

In the afternoon of 1 January, the MV BLIDA was pirated approximately 150 nautical miles South East of the port of Salalah, Oman.

On the 30 December the Spanish Frigate F-86 Canarias, for the second time, joined EUNAVFOR.

The French Destroyer MONTCALM joined the EUNAVFOR Task Force on the 22 December.

In the early hours of 25 December, the MV THOR NEXUS was pirated approximately 450 nautical miles North East of the island of Socotra in the Indian Ocean.

During the night of the 22 December, the MV THOR NAUTILUS defeated a pirate attack thanks to the use of BMP (Best Management Practices), proving once again the efficiency of self-protection measures in th