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Friday, December 19, 2008

Funny Stuff: Company Spotlight-Somcan FZC

Filed under: Funny Stuff,Maritime Security,Somalia — Tags: , , — Matt @ 5:55 PM

We are located in the ajman free zone, uae and have been operation for 5 years. The company was formed to provide coast guard services for the puntland state of somalia. We have been running this service very successfully since then…….  

 

     This belongs in the funny stuff section for sure. Three gunboats, yet less than 5 employees?  1 million to 2.5 million a year in annual sales?  Oh yeah, this company is doing a stellar job of securing the Somali coast. Just ask the chuckleheads shown in the picture below what they think of Somcan FZC. LOL.  –Matt

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pirates 

A Local Anti-Pirate Company

THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER

20/12/2008 

To put an end to the exploits of Somali pirates, the boss of the firm

Somcan in Puntland, Abidiweli Ali Taar, is asking the UN and European Union

to give him $30 million.

The managing director of the firm Somalian Coast Guard (Somcan), Abdiweli

Ali Taar, travelled to Nairobi last week to take part in an international

conference on fighting piracy that had been organized by the United Nations.

His own objective was simple enough: to button-hole officials from the UN

and European Union to persuade them to allocate $30 million per year to his

company to improve its ways of dealing with Somalian pirates. Taar’s firm is

based in Bosaso in Puntland, the breakaway region in the north east of

Somalia that is home to Somalian pirates.

In the absence of a working government in Somalia, Taar would like to see

donors help him to mount a naval force to give chase to the pirates in the

place of the armada of warships currently deployed in the Gulf of Aden. The

money he’s asking for would serve officially to acquire new military

equipment to modernize the company’s three old gunboats, hire more personnel

and train future officers of the Somalian Navy. For the moment, Somcan is

employed by the Puntland government to see to maritime security, with

somewhat patchy results.

Contacted by The Indian Ocean Newsletter in Nairobi last week, Taar

indicated he was a shareholder in Somcan with three other investors,

including his deputy, Yasin Ahmed Mohamed, a Somalian national based in

Sweden. For his part, the 45-year-old Taar holds Canadian citizenship. He

hasn’t any military experience and depends on former Kenyan navy personnel

to command his coast-guard vessels. He is the brother of colonel Hiif Ali

Taar, who died last year and who headed Somcan in the early 2000s.

In 2002, Somcan penned a contract with Puntland whose president at the time

was Abdillahi Yusuf Ahmed (now president of the Transitional Federal

Government of Somalia). The deal provided for Somcan to take over from the

British concern Hart Security which had been hired in 1999 to form a coast

guard but threw in the towel. 

Link to Story Here(must register to read)

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From Somcan Ltd FZC’s company profile on Alibaba ( I could not find a company website)

About Us 

We are located in the ajman free zone, uae and have been operation for 5 years. The company was formed to provide coast guard services for the puntland state of somalia. We have been running this service very successfully since then. We are also authorised in conjuction with the ministry of fishing, puntland to issue fishing licences to an interested company. Recently we have started offering fuel oil of saudi origin from a terminal facility in hamriya, sharjah free zone, sharjah. We also provide base oil of iranian origin. 

Number of Employees: less than 5

Estimated Annual Sales: 1 Million – 2.5 Million US

Year Established: 2001

Main Products: Oil Supplier, fishing licenses, coast guard services

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