Maritime exercices

Organisation of TableTop Command Post regional Maritime Security Exercises (TTX/CPX)

Exercises are perhaps the most powerful training tool available to prepare personnel, administrations and governments, to confront the vast spectrum of maritime safety and security challenges, in today’s complex world. The engagement of EU CRIMARIO in training activities covers the full range of actions.

At the most rudimentary level, instructors provide instruction to operators in various centres on the basic skills required to gather, analyse and exchange information effectively.

The project also facilitates the conduct of national and regional exercises that bring together personnel from various countries and agencies to collectively face challenges in a benign environment and learn lessons and techniques that will improve their response to real-world emergencies.

The primary goals of the exercises are to practice inter-agency cooperation and coordination at regional and national levels, whilst also testing available Standard Operational Procedures (SOPs) that deal with coping with such situations. 

More generally, the objectives of the exercises are: 

• To review and exercise security contingency plans against maritime security threats. 
• To practice the command, control, coordination and communications arrangements. 
• To exercise the responses to specific maritime security threats. 
• To examine their readiness and ability to share information. 
• To validate new processes and resources to be deployed. 
• To practice inter-agency work at regional and national levels.
• To get acquainted with IORIS as a MARCO3 tool

The Tabletop /Command post exercises, both at national and regional level, are conducted through the extensive use of the project web-based info sharing and operational coordination tool IORIS. 

This activity gives participants the opportunity to examine their readiness and ability to share information, react in a timely manner and implement initial responses, through a series of simulated suspect behaviours at sea. The scenarios for these exercises can cover different themes (e.g. piracy, IUUF, smuggling, etc.).

This activity contributes towards one of the main objectives of the project: to enhance maritime security and safety by supporting the regions to develop its own maritime domain awareness (MDA) and law enforcement capacities.

To promote regional maritime security, the project also participates in regional exercises. Examples include Bell Buoy a recurring multinational maritime security exercise under the Pacific and Indian Ocean Shipping Working Group (PACIOS WG).

For more information: info@crimario.eu