Project News
Madagascar & Comoros’ civil servants reached a good command of maritime English
The European CRIMARIO project continues its capacity building programme to the benefit of coastal states of Eastern Africa, Southern Africa and the Indian Ocean (ESA-IO), committed in establishing the Regional Maritime Information Fusion Centre (RMIFC). From 15 to 19...
Des fonctionnaires de Madagascar et des Comores maîtrisent l’anglais maritime
Le projet européen CRIMARIO poursuit son programme de renforcement des capacités au profit des États côtiers de l’Afrique Orientale, Australe et Océan Indien (AfOA-OI) engagés dans la constitution du Centre Régional de Fusion d’Informations Maritimes (CRFIM). Du 15 au...
Clarification meeting in Seychelles prior to start coding IORIS
Before starting the coding of IORIS, clarification meetings were held in Seychelles on 23-24 November to discuss the possible amendments, taking into consideration the latest technical requirements of the regional stakeholders. Fruitful discussions were held with both...
Kenya specialists trained on PELAGUS software
From 13 to 17 November 2017, ten operational specialists of Kenya were trained on PELAGUS software, aimed at managing a National AIS network. This capacity building exercise is part of the CRIMARIO technical assistance provided for Kenya in order to implement their...
Stronger maritime cooperation in Madagascar & Comoros
On 27 October 2017, in Antanarivo (Madagascar), the Prime Minister of Madagascar chaired the closing ceremony of the CRIMARIO last training session and the signing ceremony of maritime information sharing agreements between the MIFC (Maritime Fusion Centre of...
A new session within the training in data analysis
The EU CRIMARIO project, in collaboration with RMIFC, is continuing its training programme in visualization and analysis of maritime data. From 11 to 22 September 2017, in Antananarivo, 31 specialists of Comoros and Madagascar, belonging to administrations and...
The course on maritime domain analysis starts in Antananarivo
CRIMARIO starts a new training on maritime data analysis. The first course is delivered in Antananarivo (Madagascar) from 24 July to 4 August 2017 for 28 participants from Comoros and Madagascar. The future analysts will deepen their knowledge of maritime domain and...
Recruiting expertise for AIS network implementation in Comoros
Expertise France, implementing agency of CRIMARIO, is recruiting a short term expert. Details on Expertise France website. CRIMARIO is supporting the Union of Comoros in its will to establish a national terrestrial AIS network which data would be shared regionally. ...
Crimario at CGPCS plenary session
During its plenary session in Mauritius (5-7 July), the CGPCS (Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia decided that to achieve the objective of zero seafarers and zero ships detained by pirates, key elements remain: (1) deterrence, monitoring and surveillance...
OBP report 2016
Marianne Peron-Doise was invited to the presentation of OBP report 2016 on the state of maritime piracy, which stress out resurgence of piracy in the Indian Ocean. It was admitted that the fact that piracy and criminal networks were still alive in the area was not new...
What skills acquired in maritime data visualisation ?
Twelve trainees, 7 Malagasy and 5 Comorians, have finished a 7 week on-site training which was broken down into three training periods during a 6 month period (October 2016 to March 2017). In between the two first sessions, the students followed an additional 1 month...
EU maritime security in the Indian Ocean
Within the framework of the European Security and Defence College (ESDC), Institute for Higher National Defence Studies (IHEDN, France) organised a course dedicated to the challenges of securing maritime areas, in Brussels on 15-17 March 2017. With this course,...
Future trainers to monitor the maritime domain
Effective maritime surveillance is one of the keys to safety and security at sea, as recalled in the recent and tragic piracy attack off the coast of Somalia. Competent teams are required for analysing the data and information continuously transmitted from many...