Radar to Protect Yemeni Territorial Waters

Yemen has set up radars on Yemeni coasts to monitor pirate boats if they move towards Yemeni territorial waters. Sources from the Defense Ministry and Interior Ministry declared that hundreds of additional soldiers have been positioned on gunboats prepared to repress piracy acts. The sources added that Yemen is planning to establish two marine military bases in the governorates of Hadramout and Hodeidah to reinforce the protection of Yemeni territorial waters. 

Yemen to Establish Anti-Piracy Group

Yemen plans to establish an international group in cooperation with 20 other countries including Japan, Malaysia and the United States to battle piracy in the Gulf. Yemen plans to launch operations of a regional center to fight piracy in the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Aden at the beginning of next year. The center would coordinate maritime security efforts to protect international shipping in the southern Gulf. During this year, more than 80 vessels were attacked by pirates in the Horn of Africa.

Yemen to Export Gas in 2009

The project of producing Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) will start shipping to foreign markets in the second quarter of 2009. Sources told Yemen Post that the gas plant will produce 6.7 million tons per year of LNG.

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