G7++ Friends of the Gulf of Guinea (FoGG) Plenary Session in Abidjan On 1 and 2 December, CRIMSON attended the plenary session of the G7++ Friends of the Gulf of Guinea held in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. For the first time, civil society organisations were also invited to the plenary. Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU)…
Addressing maritime safety and security threats through IORIS On 6 and 7 December, more than 80 senior officials from over 25 countries from across the Indo Pacific met in Mahé, to discuss how the Indo – Pacific Regional Information Sharing Platform (IORIS) could be used to exchange information and respond effectively to maritime security threats…
YARIS: a monitoring tool, but also a means for analysis Permanent surveillance of the seas is a prerequisite for the peaceful and sustainable use of marine and maritime resources. Such surveillance is a necessary condition for conducting targeted maritime policing operations in cases of suspected illegal or criminal activities. To be truly effective, however, it…
WeCAPS/WMU/Enabel Workshop on legal framework analysis of port security and safety A World Maritime University (WMU) and Enabel delegation, in conjunction with the European Union-funded Western and Central Africa Port Security (WeCAPS) project, delivered workshops in Cameroon, Ivory Coast, and Senegal. These workshops that were conducted by WMU and Enabel, as the culmination of the…
CRIMARIO II launch IORIS Version 3 (V3) On 7 September 2022, V3 of the Indo-Pacific Regional Information Sharing (IORIS) platform was upgraded, to now include new features that makes the platform more appealing and user-friendly to operators. Apart from some design upgrades, V3 now includes Satellite Automatic Identification System (S-AIS), extended mapping functionalities, and a…
Restitution seminar on the analysis and coverage of the risks of the Autonomous Port of Pointe-Noire On 22 and 23 September 2022, a restitution seminar on the analysis and coverage of the risks of the Autonomous Port of Pointe-Noire was organized in the premises of the new general management of the port. This analysis is…
YARIS successfully used by Guinean authorities On Saturday 30 July, an operation to combat illegal fishing was successfully carried out by the Maritime Operations Centre (MOC) of the Maritime Prefecture of Guinea, using the YARIS platform. The operation resulted in the boarding and inspection of the offending vessel. Read more. This operation, carried out from…
CRIMSON organises the “Gulf of Guinea EU Maritime Actions Meeting” in Brussels On 26-27 October 2022, CRIMSON organised in Brussels the “GoG EU Maritime Actions Meeting”, with the support of the EU SC for maritime security in the GoG, Nicolas Berlanga and FPI. The meeting was considered successful, as it allowed several colleagues from a…
YARIS training for national administrations 2021 was devoted to initial training for the Yaoundé Architecture centres (ICC, Regional Centres, MMCCs, National MOC Reference Centres) using YARIS, thus giving them the opportunity to connect to the platform to collaborate. From 2022, as requested by several countries wishing to create a YARIS national inter-agency network, this training…
WeCAPS regional seminar on security – ISPS, today and tomorrow In the framework of the WeCAPS project, a regional seminar was organized on June 8 and 9, 2022 for the benefit of the security managers of the ten partner ports in West and Central Africa. The objective of the WeCAPS seminar was to support the…
