In order to improve the regional Maritime Security Architecture, the Commission of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has taken delivery of a number of technical equipment from the government of Germany.
The equipment includes 63 high tech communication, surveillance, monitoring, conferencing, visualization, logistics items and other accessories.
The equipment aims to improve the effectiveness of the centre, and its coordination with multinational maritime centres that important to the operation of the maritime security architecture of the Gulf of Guinea.
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Moreover to reduce criminal acts at sea Mr. Callegaro said that Germany has made available to the four coordination centers including the CRESMAO, technical equipment of a total value of 1.2 million euros.
The Director of the CRESMAO Cote d’Ivoire Senior Captain Boniface K. Konan, explained that the equipment will help the maritime safety efforts and will give the region a “vision of what is going on. So that in crisis, the Centre becomes an efficient back up and helps to solve it.”
The development of the ECOWAS Maritime Security Architecture is based on the United Nations Security Council Resolution 2018 (2011)/ 2039 (2012), which had been issued in the light of piracy attacks in the Gulf of Guinea.
The cooperation will improve the operations of the ECOWAS Multinational Maritime Coordination Centres (MMCC) based in Benin, Ghana and Cabo Verde and the regional coordination Centre in Cote d’Ivoire.