More than 30% of the world's oil is transported through the Gulf of Aden.
Co-ordinating American and Chinese efforts in the Gulf of Aden has certainly done no harm to ties.
The Enterprise is to relieve the USS Carl Vinson, which currently is in the Gulf of Aden.
Often their effect has been to displace the problem from the Gulf of Aden to the Indian Ocean.
We strolled in the white sands of eastern Zanzibar and swam in the Gulf of Aden off Somalia's coast.
On Monday, pirates seized a British-owned cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden.
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And the operations of pirates in the Gulf of Aden are well documented.
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Three vessels have just completed an anti-piracy tour in the Gulf of Aden.
He said that piracy in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean was going to be a very "long-term problem".
The men were captured by a British frigate in the Gulf of Aden in November and brought to Kenya for trial.
All eight were delivered to Kenya after their capture by the British frigate HMS Cumberland in the Gulf of Aden.
Dozens of ships have been attacked in the Gulf of Aden by pirates based in largely lawless Somalia in recent months.
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The government had proposed sending 30 troops to the Gulf of Aden, but opponents said the bill compromised Switzerland's long-held neutrality.
The taskforce stress that they act as a deterrent and are focusing their patrolling on narrow corridors in the Gulf of Aden.
Last year's uptick in hijackings off East Africa has already spurred a number of international navies to patrol the Gulf of Aden.
And the vessel was also called on during her transit home, to guard a merchant ship against piracy in the Gulf of Aden.
The Gulf of Aden, which connects the Red and Arabian seas, has become a treacherous stretch for ships, particularly along the Somali coast.
"This new move by the European Union to put more ships into the Gulf of Aden could be quite positive, " he said.
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Navy officials say about 12 to 15 coalition ships are patrolling in the Gulf of Aden and the off the coast of Somalia.
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This means that unless more is done to stop them, they will continue to plunder the busy shipping lanes through the Gulf of Aden.
According to the rest of the world, Somaliland is, officially, just a part of Somalia, located in the northern area along the Gulf of Aden.
The problem has forced companies like Hapag-Lloyd, that use the Gulf of Aden, to make new plans, including stepping up security or changing their routes.
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"Billions of dollars of goods move through the Gulf of Aden each year, " said Bill Matthews, executive vice president of Blackwater Worldwide, in a press release.
This year, the U.S. Navy started Combined Task Force 151, a multinational coalition that uses naval ships to fight piracy in the Gulf of Aden region.
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An Indian frigate battled a pirate ship in the Gulf of Aden on Tuesday, leaving the ship ablaze and likely sunk, the country's defense ministry reported.
Warships from at least nine countries are now operating in the Gulf of Aden and the waters off Somalia, but this may have only shifted the problem.
If true, they show that the administration doesn't understand how to send the right message to the Islamist pirates in the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean.
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Foreign navies have begun patrolling the Gulf of Aden to rein in the pirate gangs off the coast of northern Somalia, but they have had only limited success.
There have been at least 83 acknowledged pirate attacks off Somalia and in the Gulf of Aden this year, 33 of them successful enough to command a ransom.
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