Antipiracy: Mimbelli ship crosses Suez to participate in Ocean Shield

31/01/14

After completing the preparation phase for the mission to combat piracy and control of merchant traffic, and after an intense training period at the NMIOTC (NATO Maritime Interdiction Operation Training Center) of Souda, the destroyer Francesco Mimbelli, last 29 January, it crossed the Suez Canal with a southern route entering the waters of the Red Sea.

Nave Mimbelli left from the naval base of Taranto the 18 last January, with a crew of 330 men and women, complete with the specialized teams of the Flying Groups, the Marina San Marco Brigade and Comsubin Diving Operative Group (Underwater Command Raiders) to participate in the mission "Ocean Shield"In the basin of the Horn of Africa and the Indian Ocean.

The "passage to the South", in fact, marks the beginning of the operational phase of the mission which, for the next 6 months, will see Nimbolo Mimbelli engaged, together with other Marine Units of Allied Countries, in the fight against piracy, integrated into the Task Force 508 of the NATO, detecting in area Libeccio ship, already on an anti-piracy mission since October 2013.