INS Trishul wraps up a port call at Egypt's Safaga Naval Base on the Red Sea

11 November 2026

The Indian Navy ship INS Trishul has completed a port call at the Safaga Naval Base in Egypt while on an operational deployment. The commanding officer called on the Commander of Egypt's Red Sea Naval Base, Rear Admiral M D Abd El Maksoud. Talks covered maritime security in the Gulf of Suez and the importance of the Red Sea, and the two navies carried out joint diving training. The visit follows the eleventh meeting of the India-Egypt Joint Defence Committee, held at Cairo earlier this year, which works within the framework of a memorandum of understanding on defence cooperation signed in 2022. India and Egypt raised their relationship to a Strategic Partnership in 2023.