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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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