Presentation of YARIS to partners and upcoming activities for 2021 Since the beginning of January, the GoGIN team has been entirely focused on the training activities on the YARIS platform for the maritime centres in the Gulf of Guinea, organising remote introductory training sessions on the use of the system. In February, the team held…
Port assessments in Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana Thanks to the relaxation of COVID-19 travel restrictions, WeCAPS continued its port assessments, respecting local health policies in the process. The WeCAPS team continues to carry out the series of port assessments which commenced in September, visiting Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana between January and March 2021. Following a…
On 16 November, pirates kidnapped five Ghanaians from the cargo ship AM DELTA, 35 nautical miles from the Agbano terminals in the Niger Delta area of Nigeria. According to initial investigations, six or seven pirates boarded the Ghanaian ship 44 nautical miles from South Brass. This is the 9th such incident in November alone. Including…
At the closing ceremony for the first GoGIN In-Crisis Communication Course for English speaking countries at the Regional Maritime University (RMU), in Accra, the European Union Ambassador to Ghana, Ms. Diana Acconcia stressed how much maritime governance is needed to improve the blue economy as well as coordination of efforts to fight maritime insecurity and…
On 15 December, a merchant vessel was attacked off the city of Brass, located in the southern Nigerian state of Bayelsa. In 2018, Nigeria experienced an increase in piracy attacks, particularly off the Niger Delta, source to offshore oil production. The latest report of the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) recorded that of the 57 attacks…
In the latest report by International Maritime Bureau (IMB) on piracy incidents, 156 incidents were globally reported in the first nine months of 2018. The Gulf of Guinea alone accounts for 57 of the 156 reported incidents. Most of these incidents have been reported in and around Nigeria (41), but there has also been a noticeable…
Between May and July 2016, the Regional Maritime University (RMU) in Accra, supported by the EU CRIMGO project, has delivered an eight-week training to 18 mid-managers and operators from seven coastal countries of the Gulf of Guinea (Benin, Cameroon, Gabon, Ghana, Nigeria, Sao Tome and Principe and Togo). The curricula developed by the CRIMGO…
