The Ship Registration of Cyprus recommends measures to ensure the security of vessels under the Cyprus Flag which are calling or approaching ports in Israel.
The situation in Israel remains volatile, Cyprus warns. Therefore, it is recommended, in the absence of any specific security-related threats, that owners, operators, managers and masters of Cyprus flagged ships calling Israeli ports or, when remaining or navigating through the territorial waters of Israel, to:
- Make frequent checks with local sources of information, e.g. vessel agents, local authorities, Hull and Machinery and Protection and Indemnity insurance providers, in order to obtain the most up-to-date and reliable security-related information available at any given time.
- Carefully assess the security-related situation at each port call or when remaining or navigating through territorial waters, on a case-by-case basis and, as necessary, to implement appropriate security measures aboard in order to protect the vessel and its crew.
- Review, exercise and, if necessary, implement the relevant contingency plans.
- Maintain the utmost vigilance and increase, as necessary, the rigorousness of implementing the security measures aboard in order to protect the vessel and crew.
To remind, following the geopolitical conflict in Israel, as well as the recent attacks on Israeli ports, the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) has raised the security level to Security Level III.
