Portail du Transport Fluvial - la Batellerie

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OFF THE SOMALI COAST - The Dutch sailors aboard a warship scanned the waters off Somalia for an entire month, but they never once saw a pirate - nor fired their weapons except for target practice. The ship they protected was able to bring tons of food aid to desperate Somalis, but the sailors acknowledge there will never be enough military escorts to protect the 20,000 ships that traverse the Gulf of Aden every year [..]