Examples of using Dhows in English and their translations into Russian
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Has dhows with anti-aircraft guns that protect traders in the sea.
There is an average of three or four dhows per week and the return trip usually takes about two weeks.
Dhows and general cargo ships that use the above-mentioned ports are subject to the payment of these fees.
Vessels, especially traditional dhows, can land and depart from the coast unregistered and undetected.
That would serve to regulatetrade by traditional vessels, including dhows, plying the waters off Somalia.
On average, dhows carrying arms and ammunition arrive in Somalia from Yemen 2 to 3 times a week.
During the current reporting period, approximately 26 maritime vessels,including dhows, have landed at Somali seaports.
On 27 November 1996, 43 Iraqi motor boats, six dhows and tugboats carrying 12 individuals were observed patrolling in the Arvand Rud.
Pirate groups first test a ship's defences in order to identify vulnerable ships,many of which are fishing vessels and dhows.
Currently, however, in the Horn of Africa and Somalia, most dhows are motorized and have cargo capacities ranging from 50 to 750 tons.
This compares with 339 people and16 vessels(including four fishing vessels and two dhows) held in September 2011.
Today, one merchant vessel,six fishing vessels or dhows and at least 60 individuals remain held by Somali pirates, both on land and at sea.30.
Wooden dhows are usually registered in the ports where they were constructed and, while some of the vessels are company-owned, most belong to individuals.
In 2006, there were five hijacked vessels registered: two dhows, a fishing trawler, a general cargo vessel and a product tanker.
Most dhows used for arms shipment are motorized, equipped with the Global Positioning System and other sophisticated navigation and maritime instruments.
The predominant means of transport of the arms were ocean-going freighters, dhows and surface vehicles over the local road networks in the neighbouring States and Somalia.
Most of the ships and dhows come to Kismaayo from the United Arab Emirates, while the varied destinations of the ships and dhows include India, Yemen and Saudi Arabia.
The Monitoring Group has investigated arms shipments that were offloaded from container ships at a neighbouring country's seaport andtransported to Somalia by a combination of road and dhows.
Of those, 142 were identified as wooden dhows that generally carry cargoes of between 10,000 and 65,000 bags of charcoal, depending on the size of the vessel.98.
The pirates have continued to deter action by the navies through the greater use of captured ships and dhows as"mother ships", often retaining the captured crews on-board as human shields.
Of the 142 dhows referred to above as exporting charcoal from Somalia, at least 84(some 59 per cent) have been positively identified as flying the Indian flag or owned by Indian nationals.105.
Maritime trade involves mainly deep-sea vessels, coasters and dhows that call into the major functioning ports of the country: Berbera, Boosaaso and Kismaayo.
Dhows are generally unregulated and are known to be involved in the smuggling of cigarettes, liquor and other items; there is no certainty that they carry arms, although this is also possible.
Having set out to sea two days previously in a skiff and two dhows, Hanaano and seven of his militia were reportedly arrested in Yemeni waters and eventually imprisoned in Sana'a.
During the first nine months of 2012, 99 attacks took place, while during the first nine months of 2013, 17 attacks occurred against ships in the waters off the coast of Somalia,in which pirates were able to briefly hijack two dhows.
Typical reports speak of shipments consisting of one or several trucks,one air cargo load or on dhows that move goods around the coasts of East Africa and the Arabian peninsula.
Whereas in the past most dhows were considered large when their cargo capacity was up to 1,000 tons today most of the dhows used in arms shipments have a cargo capacity of up to 5,000 tons.
Being aware of the limited range and seakeeping qualities of their inshore speedboats,Somali pirates have resorted to capturing fishing trawlers and dhows for use as mother ships for their ventures up to 400 miles from the shore.
On or about 23 July 2007, two dhows allegedly from Eritrea arrived with arms for the Shabaab camps at Dhusamareeb, and on 28 January 2008, insurgents arrived aboard speedboats. Hobyo.
In 2011, however, their success began to diminish with the increasing use of armed private maritime security companies aboard vessels, until such time in 2012 when pirates were no longer able to hijack a vessel, except unprotected andless-valuable targets such as dhows and fishing trawlers.