IORIS
Two regional maritime centres conduct simulation exercise
Olivier Bézier, CRIMARIO Training and Capacity Building component manager, organized and conducted a Command Post Exercise (CPX) focused in drug trafficking to the primary benefit of RMIFC in Antananarivo and RCOC in Mahé. A third player joined the exercise, Mauritius...[Video] IORIS a secure platform for maritime information sharing in the Indian Ocean region
IORIS, a secure web platform for information sharing, collaboration and incident management at sea is fully operational and utilised by 2 regional maritime centres (RMIFC & RCOC), 5 western Indian Ocean countries, and the membership is growing daily. The duplicate...
Training in maritime analysis contributes to a better surveillance at sea
CRIMARIO organised the final session of the training cycle dedicated to maritime data analysis for 14 participants of Kenya, Madagascar and Seychelles (13-23 May, Mombasa, Kenya). The EU CRIMARIO project has designed a complete training programme on maritime data...
Maritime information sharing in the core of Jeddah amendment of the Djibouti Code of conduct
François-Régis Cloup Mandavialle and David Nattrass attended the high level workshop on the implementation of the Jeddah amendment to Djibouti code of conduct, held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia from 23 to 25 April 2019. This workshop entitled “Addressing Maritime Security...
IORIS at the Comoros Maritime Information Center
From April 29 to May 2, 2019, Olivier Bézier organized and conducted training session for some twenty officers of the new National Maritime Information Fusion Centre of the Union of the Comoros. The session included a practical module on the law of the sea, and basic...
Validation of the IORIS transfer of ownership to IOC
The IORIS platform has been designed to become the primary tool for information sharing and event management at sea among the coastal countries of the Indian Ocean Region. From the beginning, the European CRIMARIO project has focused on ownership and management of the...
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...
Cutlass Express 2019 Comes to a Close
PEMBA, Mosambique — Maritime forces from East Africa, West Indian Ocean nations, Europe, and the United States concluded the eighth iteration of the annual multinational maritime exercise Cutlass Express 2019, Feb. 7. The conclusion of Cutlass Express brought several...
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...
Join the side-event: create MDA for enhancing the blue economy
EU CRIMARIO and EU GoGIN projects organise a side-event during the Sustainable Blue Economy Conference held in Nairobi. Scheduled on Wednesday 28 November 11:30 to 13:00 at Lenana Hall, KICC, the side-event will cover “Create MDA (Maritime Domain Awareness) for...
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...
CRIMARIO-MASE: a win-win partnership
Objectives of CRIMARIO The EU project CRIMARIO, funded (5,5M€) by the Direction General of International Cooperation and Development (DG DEVCO) of the European Commission within the Critical Maritimes Routes programme initiated in January 2015, is dedicated to the...
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...