Maritime security
Maritime agencies from the Horn of Africa and ATALANTA together to enhance maritime security
For the first time ever the Yemen Maritime Affairs Authority, the Somali Maritime Administration (Mogadishu), the Puntland Maritime Police Force, the Somaliland Coast Guard and the Djibouti Coast Guard coordinated their joint actions on maritime security and...
Palau and the Philippines test their Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to respond to simulated incidents at sea using IORIS
On the 21 and 22 of February maritime agencies from Palau and the Philippines joined a tabletop / command post exercise using IORIS, a secure and neutral, web-based maritime coordination and information-sharing tool for national and regional multi-agency use developed...
MICA center annual report is out
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SHARE.IT: a structured, secure, fast means of communication to strengthening maritime security
From 16 to 20 January 2023, directors, officers, and technical experts from the main Information Fusion Centres (IFC) in Singapore, Madagascar, Peru, Vanuatu, India met in Bangkok and online for the 2nd SHARE.IT Interoperability Framework Conference to discuss how to...
EU actions in maritime security with ASEAN countries
[Source: EU Delegation to ASEAN] In the ASEAN-EU Plan of Action 2018 – 2022, the European Union (EU) committed itself to enhance maritime security cooperation with ASEAN. In celebration of World Maritime Day on 30 September 2021, the EU Delegation to ASEAN...
CRIMARIO participated in 7th Indian Ocean Naval Symposium (IONS)
CRIMARIO was invited to participate in this year’s edition of IONS in La Réunion between 28 June to 1 July 2021 through the French Presidency and as part of the European delegation. This edition of IONS gathered 25 member countries, eight observer states and eight...
Indian National Maritime Foundation, EU CRIMARIO share views on maritime security & cooperation in Indian Ocean
On 24th August 2020, the EU CRIMARIO team led by Martin Cauchi Inglott, had a fruitful engagement with Vice-Admiral Pradeep Chauhan, Director General of the National Maritime Foundation (NMF) of India where security concerns affecting the Indian Ocean were...
Follow the new European initiative on maritime security in the wider Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia
The EU CRIMARIO II initiative, launched on June 2020, builds on the experience of CRIMARIO I by expanding the geographical scope of the project towards South and Southeast Asia with a view to contributing to safer sea lines of communication with the European Union,...
Madagascar will host the 1st forum on maritime security
15 June 2019 – Madagascar will host the first regional forum on maritime security, to which several neighboring countries of the Big Island will participate, among others, Kenya, Mozambique, Mauritius, Comoros, Reunion and Seychelles. At the military award...
Seychelles, CJTF-HOA build partnership
Victoria, 21 May 2019 — The East African island nation of Seychelles is a key partner with Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa, working towards increasing security and regional stability in the Indian Ocean. U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. James R. Kriesel,...
Maritime security the Seychelles way
From Africa Defense Forum: 29 January 2019: Africa’s smallest nation is setting a standard for safe, sustainable seas through the prosecution of pirates, international maritime cooperation and proactive measures to protect its exclusive economic zone. As the six...
Maritime information sharing in the core of Jeddah amendment of the Djibouti Code of conduct
François-Régis Cloup Mandavialle and David Nattrass attended the high level workshop on the implementation of the Jeddah amendment to Djibouti code of conduct, held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia from 23 to 25 April 2019. This workshop entitled “Addressing Maritime Security...
Maritime terrorism threats destabilize regional security: Saudi security workshop
JEDDAH 27 April 2019: A three-day maritime security workshop held at the Mohammed bin Naif Institute for Maritime Science and Security Studies in Jeddah has ended, the Saudi Press Agency reported. The workshop was organized by the Directorate General of the Border...