Remember the prime objective

In relation to your article in IFW, The Mission to Seafarers welcomes the commitment by EU member states to extend Operation Atalanta. However it is worth remembering that its primary objective is to protect the movement of World Food Programme cargo between Kenya and Somalia. Throughout this IMO year of “orchestrating the response” to piracy, seafarers working in the Indian Ocean have repeatedly told us that the sight of a naval warship is a rarity. We have also

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