Tag: maritime surveillance

In an effort to tackle piracy within Gulf of Guinea, NIMASA along with the Inter Regional Coordination Centre formed a partnership.

On 12 April, Egypt became the 34th member of the Combined Maritime Forces (CMF), in order to promote security, stability and prosperity.

The Italian Navy is the latest European force to join Ghana’s anti-piracy campaign in the Gulf of Guinea.

In an effort to enhance and strengthen cooperation in the maritime security field, Malaysia is expected to ink a MoU with Vietnam later this year.

Norway Institute of Marine Research (IMR) has awarded the contract for the construction of four autonomous research vessels to Kongsberg Maritime AS, as part of its efforts to advance monitoring of Norwegian seas.

An alarm buzzes. The marine analytics software at the onshore Maritime Enforcement Agency’s Command and Control (C2) Centre has detected some suspicious movement off the port of Singapore. An oil tanker has shifted its bearings significantly and is charting a course that departs from its historical routes.  

Enhancing the coordination between maritime authorities and across borders is crucial, and to be successful, interoperability is important. The EU’s Common Information Sharing Environment (CISE) is doing exactly that, and last week, the European Commission has released a staff working document to present its progress so far.

The Croatian authorities are using EMSA's Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) to boost their coast guard functions, as to monitor vessel traffic, conduct search and rescue procedures and detection and monitoring of marine pollution. 

The Common Information Sharing Environment (CISE) has made important progress by entering its transitional phase (2019 - 2021) which will be managed and led by European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) in close cooperation with the Member States.

Amid a growing tension between the US and Iran in the light of the two tanker attacks in the Gulf of Oman last week, Iranian forces now have reportedly shut down a US military surveillance drone while flying over the Strait of Hormuz.