Indian ocean
IORIS successfully used during Cutlass Express exercise
Cutlass Express (CE19) was the first and timely opportunity for IORIS to be used on a regional scale (Indian Ocean wide) during a maritime exercise. Cutlass Express is an annual maritime exercise sponsored and conducted by U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM). The nine-day...
Information Fusion Centre – Indian Ocean Region (IFC-IOR) is launched
Mrs. Nirmala Sitharaman, the Honourable Raksha Mantri, launched the Information Fusion Centre – Indian Ocean Region (IFC-IOR) on 22 December 2018, at Information Management and Analysis Centre (IMAC) Gurugram. Apart from representation by officials from the MoD, MEA,...
Crisis management exercise with IORIS
Short crisis management exercie organised after the IORIS train the trainer course, with RMIFC and Comorian maritime specialists, on 17-18 December 2018. CRIMARIO carried out a train-the-trainers course on IORIS web-based platform, in Antananarivo (December 17-18) for...
Maritime domain awareness at blue economy conference
During the Blue Economy conference held in Nairobi on 26-28 November 2018, the two EU projects implemented by Expertise France, GoGIN and CRIMARIO, successfully organized a side-event on maritime domain awareness (MDA), gathering a hundred delegates from 20 countries...
Training in Comoros: how the shipping works?
The Union of Comoros is committed to strengthen the security and safety of maritime areas under its jurisdiction and adjacent international maritime areas. The EU CRIMARIO project supports the coastal states of the western Indian Ocean to enhance their maritime domain...
How to analyse the maritime domain?
The development of the blue economy requires the control of crimes and incidents at sea. As a response, the EU CRIMARIO project advocates regional cooperation and interagency coordination, which are illustrated today in Mombasa by the two-weeks training session...
The IORIS training curriculum is running
IORIS, the web-based platform for information sharing and incident management at sea, is operational from 1st July 2018. A specific curriculum has been designed by EU CRIMARIO in order to both have a pool of trainers and skilled teams in the partner organisations and...
Success of IORIS inauguration in Seychelles
On 3-4 September 2018 in Mahé (Seychelles), more than 60 senior officials from 20 Indian Ocean countries and international organisations discussed the added value of the IORIS web-based platform, its operationalisation and its future regional governance. Initiated by...
IORIS, Indian Ocean Regional Information Sharing platform, operational
Version 1.0 of IORIS operational 1st July 2018! Initiated by EU CRIMARIO project, the new secure information sharing and incident management tool will enable member countries to set up a collaborative working environment to improve the understanding of the maritime...
Maritime security conference in Mauritius
The 28th and 29th of April represented a historical moment for the Indian Ocean countries: indeed, 5 of them (Mauritius, Seychelles, Comoros, Madagascar and Djibouti) signed two intergovernmental agreements, one on maritime information sharing, the latter on...
Kenya & Madagascar specialists trained in data visualisation
A new session of the “Maritime Data Processing” programme was delivered in Mombasa (Kenya) from 25 March to 6 April 2018. Following the first level session, this session (MDP4 level 2) deepened the skills in maritime data visualisation. Participants...
Maritime security conference in Mauritius
In order to mobilize national, regional and international partners in favor of maritime security and safety, the Indian Ocean Commission, mandated by its extraordinary Council of Ministers in October 2017, is organizing a Ministerial Conference on Maritime Security in...
Maritime security & capacity building in Indian Ocean
SafeSeas project has just published the Best Practice Toolkit entitled Mastering Maritime Security: Reflexive Capacity Building and the western Indian Ocean Experience. The report presents the core results of the SafeSeas project drawing on 16 months of research and...