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Tuesday

SOMALIA BASIN NOW DECLARED RISK FREE FROM PIRACY

NATO has ended Operation Ocean Shield after a sharp drop-off in attacks by Somali pirates. The Royal Danish Air Force carried out the last Indian Ocean surveillance missions for NATO.

Somalia Basin Now Declared Piracy Free Area
The NATO operation had been one part of a highly successful coordinated international response to the threat of Somalia piracy that also included the European Union, the United States and other independent nations.

During its peak, piracy off the Horn of Africa had an economic impact of $7 billion, with more than 1,000 hostages taken. There hasn’t been a successful piracy attack since 2012, down from more than 30 ships at the peak in 2010-11. The NATO planes flew from the Seychelles.

“They have been giving a lot of assistance to us regarding the piracy issue,” said Colonel Simon Dine, a commander with the Seychelles Coast Guard. “They assist us in training with the Seychelles Coast Guard and the Seychelles People’s Air Force, which has given us a great help to assist in the maintaining of the security of the Seychelles’ territorial water. It’s sad for them to go back, but we are looking forward to continue to work with good relationship for the future.”

The commander of the Danish air force detachment that carried out the last mission emphasized that NATO can resume its anti-piracy efforts at any time - whether in the Somali basin or the Atlantic Ocean.

NATO is now shifting resources to deterring Russia in the Black Sea and people smugglers in the Mediterranean.

Courtesy VOA
NATO's spokesman Dylan White said in a statement that the global security environment had changed dramatically in the last few years and that NATO navies had adapted with it.

After more than a decade of NATO-led operations far beyond its borders, the military alliance is shifting its focus to deter Russia in the east, following Moscow's 2014 annexation of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula.


Earlier this month, NATO broadened its operations in the Mediterranean to help the European Union stop criminals trafficking refugees from North Africa.

Friday

SHANGHAI AUTOMATED CONTAINER PORT NOW OPERATIONAL

The construction site of the fourth phrase of the construction of Shanghai International Shipping Center's Yangshan Deep-Water Port, July 9, 2017. [Photo/VCG] 

The world's largest automated port in terms of both scale and size is expected to become operational in Shanghai on Dec 10, according to a report by hket.com on Monday.

The fourth phrase of the construction of Shanghai International Shipping Center's Yangshan Deep-Water Port has nearly reached completion and now equipment are being installed and tested for debugging, the report said.

It is designed to handle 4 million standard containers per year in the near future and 6.3 million in the long term. The port will be able to accommodate the world's heaviest ships. Compared with other ports, its distinctiveness is that automation equipment and control system will be used on such a scale in a port for the first time. The loading and unloading of containers will all be controlled by computers and transported by driverless vehicles.

Zhang Bin, the general director of the port's construction, said the automation equipment can load 25 containers per hour. The core technology of the robotic port was developed independently by China.

The forth phrase of Yangshan port takes up an area of 2.23 million square meters, whose coastline stretches as long as 2,350 meters. It consists of two 70,000 DWT berths and five 50,000 DWT berths.