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Field reports and photos from our teams on mission.

Frontline tales

Always at the ready: AdvanFort witnesses latest Gulf of Oman pirate threats; moves quickly to protect clients

At approximately 0950Z on 20 December 2012, a suspicious approach by suspected pirates was reported by a merchant vessel as being at position 24:46N 057:54E, some 72 nm east of Fujairah, UAE. The potential threat came ju...

An AdvanFort security team under suspicious approach

Our team, two men and a woman, all with previous combat experience in Iraq and Afghanistan, had embarked on the MV Spar Gemini in Port of Salalah in Oman. The vessel's destination was Port Maputo in Mozambique; howe...

AdvanFort secures a client's voyage on the Bab-el-Mandeb channel

The MV Glory Mercy, on its way from the Red Sea to China, was embarked last August 17th, at 17 N, before sunrise (1-2 a.m. local time) by an AdvanFort armed security team to provide safe voyage through a high-risk area....

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