New Delhi: INS Trikand, a front-line warship of the Indian Navy, provided escort to a UN-affiliated merchant ship. The ship carried relief materials for the underprivileged in Africa under the World Food Programme (WPF) initiative.
The UN-affiliated merchant ship MV Annika was transporting relief materials from Somaliland’s city of Berbera to Mombasa in Kenya through piracy prone waters.
The WPF initiative of the United Nations supplies relief and nutrition materials to the underprivileged in Africa. Usually such vessels transporting these materials are often targets of the pirates operating from the East Coast of Somalia.
The escort of INS Trikand shows Indian Navy’s commitment towards maritime security in the Indian Ocean Region when actually the escort was a deterrent against asymmetric attacks.
