Supply ship Qiandaohu docks at Gulf of Aden.
The Chinese naval task force arrived in the Gulf of Aden and waters off Somalia Tuesday.
Somalia's chaos is just across the Gulf of Aden from Yemen.
This week the Indian Navy destroyed a heavily armed "mother ship" in the Gulf of Aden.
According to plan, it will stop at Aden or other ports before reaching Basra.
Our slogan is: Gulf of Aden, the best in aluminum doors.
After traveling through the dusty villages and towns of Yemen, they arrived at the port of Aden.
The Gulf of Aden and the east coast of Somalia accounted for 130 of this year's attacks.
Convoy fleets have sailed to the Aden Gulf in order to prevent our merchant ships from Somali Pirates' attacking.
Their effect may be merely to shift the problem from the Gulf of Aden to the Indian Ocean.
After a spike in pirate attacks in the Gulf of Aden in the fall, 18 countries contributed warships to an Armada to police the region.
According to the scheme, the first fleet will officially depart from the Gulf of Aden after the joint convoy for the second time.
China took a big step in this direction late last year by participating in a multinational anti-piracy campaign in the Gulf of Aden.
The blasts within minutes of each other struck a residential area of Aden, near the grounds of a local football team.
Vessels have been sent by China to the Gulf of Aden and the waters off the Somali coast for escort missions in recent years.
The northern coastline of Somalia lies to the south of the Gulf of Aden, a key transit zone for ships passing to and from the Red Sea and the increasingly active port of Djibouti.
The purpose of sending our navy forces to escort the Chinese ships in Aden Gulf and the waters near Somalia is to ensure the safety of Chinese ships going by the sea area.
Laura and her supporters have carefully plotted a nearly two-year route from port to port around the world, including an alternative path around Africa to avoid the pirate-infested Gulf of Aden.
The nature of relevant facilities is clear, which is to provide logistical support to Chinese fleets performing escort duties in the Gulf of Aden and the waters off the Somali coast.
