Tag: maritime surveillance

Recent attacks against merchant shipping by pirates and armed robbers in Philippines, Western Indian Ocean and Red Sea Regions have highlighted the risks associated with  transiting these waters. SQE MARINE consulting company informs about the new security transit corridors which have been set in the aforementioned areas. 

Korean Register has launched the industry's first 'Survey & Audit Preparation Guide', in order to help shipowners to check exactly what items need to be prepared for their next vessel survey audit, before submitting an application.

In response to the piracy incidents in Gulf of Aden and Bab Al Mandeb, Combined Maritime Forces are establishing a Maritime Security Transit Corridor, to provide a recommended merchant traffic route around which Naval Forces can focus their presence and surveillance efforts.

The UK’s Maritime & Coastguard Agency is modernising the way the UK Ship Register operates, with a number of new initiatives. At the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Maritime and Ports, attendees were informed that the MCA is considering increasing the fee structure for the UK Ship Register to above 2016 levels.

Africa Center issued a report, entitled "Criminality in Africa’s Fishing Industry: A Threat to Human Security", where it informs that the weak accountability of Africa’s fisheries sector enables unsustainable exploitation by foreign fishing firms and undercuts the political will needed to build more robust surveillance and prosecutorial capacity.

International Transport Intermediaries Club and the Admiralty Solicitors Group have launched a new surveyors’ indemnity wording, designed to address the imbalance between owners’ and surveyors’ responsibilities typically encountered under existing indemnity agreements.

Speaking in Lagos, NIMASA Director General informed that the government approved the procurement of three helicopters and twelve fast intervention vessels, to ensure coastal and aerial surveillance and patrol of the Nigerian maritime environment.

EMSA announced that it will carry out a demonstration, on 11 May in Huelva, Spain, to show the potential of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems, as valuable maritime surveillance tools in operational scenarios for multipurpose missions, including pollution monitoring, border control, illegal fishing detection, anti-drug trafficking, and search and rescue.

The Danish Ministry of foreign affairs announced that, after taking advice from the Foreign Policy Committee, decided to deploy a detachment consisting of a Challenger airplane, to support the monitoring of shipping traffic in the Indian Ocean.

EUNAVFOR announced that a crew from Spain’s 11th Squadron, which is usually based in Cadiz, is currently deployed with Operation Atalanta, together with their Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, Scan Eagle. The drone can be operated during day and night and provides images and video of maritime events in real-time.