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After 4 months in the hands of pirates, HANSA STAVANGER slipped quietly into the port of Mombasa under the watchful eye of the EU NAVFOR ship FGS BRANDENBURG.

On the morning of 17 August a EU NAVFOR warship came to the rescue of the passengers and crew of a small boat that encountered engine failure in the middle of the Gulf of Aden.

At a ceremony in the Red Sea onboard the EU NAVFOR Spanish warship NUMANCIA Force Commander Captain (N) Juan Garat Caramé, handed over Command of the FHQ to Commodore Pieter Bindt of the Netherlands.

The European Union Naval Force frigate BREMEN, together with a Greek Navy ship, NAVARINON, under NATO command successfully prevented a pirate attack on a Turkish merchant ship early morning of the 14 August.

At a ceremony in the Red Sea onboard the EU NAVFOR Spanish warship NUMANCIA Force Commander Captain (N) Juan Garat Caramé, handed over Command of the FHQ to Commodore Pieter Bindt of the Netherlands.

After 4 months in the hands of pirates, HANSA STAVANGER slipped quietly into the port of Mombasa under the watchful eye of the EU NAVFOR ship FGS BRANDENBURG.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Thank you for your interest in the European Union Naval Force (EU NAVFOR) support to the recently released ship HANSA STAVANGER.

To increase the knowledge about the European Union Naval Force and the aims of operation Atalanta, a liaison officer from the Djiboutian Navy was invited to participate in a patrol onboard the EU NAVFOR Swedish warship HMS TROSSOE.

European Union Naval Force ship BRANDENBURG escorts MV HANSA STAVANGER to Mombasa. HANSA STAVANGER is sailing under her own steam and with her own crew.

Having been held hostage for four months, HANSA STAVANGER is now underway to a safe port accompanied by two EU NAVFOR frigates of the German Navy operating in the area in support of the EU-lead Anti Piracy Operation Atalanta.

The German flagged and owned container vessel, HANSA STAVANGER has been released 3 August. The 20,000-tonne container vessel, HANSA STAVANGER, was captured about 400 miles off the southern Somali port of Kissmaayo on 4 April.

On Sunday 2 Aug 09, the EU NAVFOR  Dutch ship HNLMS EVERTSEN under the Command of Commander Cees Vooijs sailed from Den Helder to join the EU Naval Force operating off the Somali coast in its Anti Piracy mission.