Merchant ship News
Under the World Food Programme (WFP) initiative of the United Nations, relief and nutritional material are supplied to the underprivileged in Africa. The Indian Navy Ship Trikand was escorting the merchant ship to protect it from pirates operating from the East Coast of Somalia.
The rescue operation was carried out in the Bay of Bengal, off the coast of the Sunderbans.
All the crew members, who endured the over four-day ordeal, are safe and the ship has resumed further sailing.
The Indian and Chinese navies rescued a merchant ship in the Gulf of Aden after the vessel was hijacked by pirates.
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