Indo-Pacific
2nd IORIS Steering Committee meeting, Colombo, 5-7 March 2024
More than 100 senior officials and representatives from over 60 agencies and authorities across the Indo-Pacific region, together with other regional actors, convened in Colombo from 5-7 March 2024 to consolidate and enhance the governance of IORIS, the Indo-Pacific...
Navies, authorities and agencies and from Bangladesh, the Maldives and Sri Lanka attend Regional IORIS Standard Operation Procedure workshop
Between the 5 and the 9 of February, 2024 CRIMARIO II instructors, including CRIMARIO’s Regional Representative Admiral (Ret’d) Piyal De Silva, former Commander of the Navy, organised a regional SOP workshop in Sri Lanka, which was attended by officers from the Sri...
CRIMARIO supports Seychelles to coordinate Disaster Risk Management
In November 2023 the CRIMARIO team had planned a crisis management workshop between the 11th and the 15th of December in the Seychelles. However, due to unexpected circumstances the focus needed to change and the team had to swiftly adapt and carry out a workshop and...
Sharing data for the benefit of safe and secure seas: a complex, painful, necessary process?
Discussions on the fringes of the 3rd SHARE.IT Conference on Interoperability held in Bangkok from 20 to 24 November 2024 highlighted the complexity and diversity of participants’ perceptions on the evolution of regional maritime security and threats from the...
SISYPHUS: a dynamic maritime exercise enhancing IORIS uptake across the Indo-Pacific Region
With a growing community now proficient in IORIS, spanning over 55 organizations across the Indo-Pacific, there is a need to foster deeper engagement at both national and regional levels. What best way to involve different agencies through an exercise which will run...
Successful IORIS Regional Exercise in the Gulf of Aden/Horn of Africa region
This past week marked an important and necessary moment in enhancing maritime safety and security in the Gulf of Aden/Horn of Africa region as the project conducted a comprehensive regional exercise. Our dedicated participants from the Jordanian Maritime Authority,...
In the Philippines, Marina and the Coast Guard signed the IORIS Partnership Agreement
The Philippine Marina and Coast Guard signed a collaborative agreement with CRIMARIO concerning the use of the Indo-Pacific Regional Information Sharing (IORIS) platform. On September 5 and 7, respectively, the Philippines Coast Guard and MARINA signed a collaborative...
Philippine agencies train together to ensure safe and secure seas
On the 10 and 11 of August, the National Coast Watch Center (NCW Center), with the support of the CRIMARIO project, organised a large-scale interagency Tabletop and Field Training Exercise in Manila. The exercise aimed to test the interoperability and communication...
Latin America Regional Exercise: IORIS used to exchange information among participants
Between the 10 and 14 of July, the Latin America Regional Exercise (LA REGEX) was carried out in Peru and Ecuador, coordinated respectively by the Lima Coast Guard Headquarters Command and by the Guayaquil Coast Guard Headquarters Command. During the exercise, which...
To enhance maritime security and interagency cooperation Sri Lanka and Maldives in a Command Post Exercise organised by CRIMARIO
On the 6 – 8 of June, Maldives National Defence Force together with the Sri Lanka Coast Guards and the Sri Lanka Navy participated in a Command Post Exercise organised by the project, which was conducted with the support of the IORIS platform. During the exercise,...
First IORIS Steering Committee Meeting in Bali to move towards the common management of the platform.
More than 90 senior officials and representatives from 53 agencies across the Indo-Pacific region, together with other regional actors are convening in Bali on 24-25 May 2023 to discuss about the future governance structure of the Indo-Pacific Regional Information...
Interconnecting national maritime agencies to strengthen maritime security and safety in the Philippines
On the 20 and 21 March 2023, eleven maritime Philippines agencies met in Manila and agreed to create a National IORIS Governance structure, to best serve the operational interests of the Philippines, IORIS being a neutral and secure information exchange and maritime...
Improving maritime law enforcement through forensic diving training
A truly international team met between the 3rd and the 13th of January in Maldives for a Forensics diving course which was organised by CRIMARIO II, in collaboration with the French National Gendarmerie (CNING Centre National d’Instruction Nautique de la...