A German number 2 from Eunavfor

(BRUSSELS2) Rear Admiral Rainer Endres has taken up his duties as number 2 of the European Union's anti-piracy operation (Eunavfor Atalanta) alongside his British counterpart, Rear Admiral Duncan L. Potts. He takes over from Frenchman Christian Canova, well known on this blog. An experiment " personally rewarding ” made a point of underlining the latter during his departure. " We have succeeded in maintaining 100% protection for the WFP ships that bring food for the Somalis. We continued to secure the transit corridor in the Gulf of Aden and Atalanta contributed significantly to lowering the success rate of attacks as well as the number of ships and hostages held by pirates ».

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Rear-Admiral Endres was commander of the FGS Thetis and senior officer on the destroyer FGS Lutjens. He also served as personal assistant to the commander of Destroyer Squadron 1, commanded the destroyer FGS Rommel and the 2nd Frigate Wing based in Wilhelmshaven and was until now Director of Development, Training and Education in Rostock. He was also Division Chief at NATO Maritime Component HQ in Naples.

Rotation

According to the principle fixed at the beginning of the operation, it is a Briton (Duncan L. Potts) who commands the operation while his deputy is appointed for six months, by rotation between French and German in general. Area command is provided by rotation between the different countries involved, by rotation every 4 months. Currently he is a Spaniard, before handing over to a Frenchman.

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