Tuesday, February 19, 2013

PLA Navy 14th fleet escort departs for Somali

The 14th naval squad, sent by the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy, departed Saturday from China to the Gulf of Aden and Somali waters for escort missions.

The squad, Which set sail from a port in Qingdao of east China's Shandong Province, will succeed the 13th fleet escort mission in Somali currently Conducting waters.

The 14th convoy fleet included three ships - the missile destroyer Harbin, the frigate Mianyang and the supply ship Weishanhu - carrying two helicopters and a 730-strong troop, all from the North China Sea Fleet under the PLA Navy.

It is the first time the destroyer and the frigate are Conducting escort missions.

Since December 2008, authorized by the United Nations, the Chinese navy HAS Organized 14 fleets to the waters of the Gulf of Aden and Somali waters to escort Chinese and foreign ships 5.046. More than 50 Chinese and foreign ships rescued or assisted Have Been falling on the missions.


At Saturday's farewell ceremony, Ding Yiping, deputy command of the PLA Navy, Said it will be more challenging for the Chinese and foreign navies to track pirates and rescue kidnapped hostages as activities in the Gulf of Aden and Somali waters Become more deceptive and abusive.

Ding urged the squad, with Yubai Yuan, chief of staff of the PLA Navy's North China Sea Fleet command you, to draw on the experience from previous assignments to Enhance capability icts and efficacité falling on the escort mission.

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