Maritime exercises, a powerful training tool
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 presented by today’s complex world. As the famous Russian Field Marshall Suvorov stated, ‘What is difficult in training will become easy in battle!’ The engagement of the CRIMARIO II […]
Activities and achievements of EU CRIMARIO are published
This bilingual leaflet sums up the activities and achievements of the EU CRIMARIO project, for the period 2015-2019. EU CRIMARIO achievements – Réalisations de CRIMARIO from CRIMARIO Project
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 Coast Guard. From 10 to 13 June, the teams were given a drug case study […]
Boost for blue economy as President Kenyatta commissions Bandari Maritime Academy
Nairobi, 8 July 2019 – Kenya’s efforts to position the blue economy sector as a key driver of the country’s transformation today received a major boost with the commissioning of the Bandari Maritime Academy in Mombasa County. President Kenyatta led hundreds of maritime sector stakeholders at the ceremony during which he announced a raft of reforms […]
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 training using the IORIS information sharing and crisis management […]
Seychelles & Mauritius: certified analysts in the maritime domain
Mauritius and Seychelles are achieving the full programme in maritime data analysis. The previous sessions were delivered in 2018 (May, June and October 2018); this fourth and final session was attended by the 14 participants who successfully completed the test following the previous sessions. They learned the alert warning process, maritime intelligence and maritime strategic […]
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 firsts to include India’s participation in the exercise and the implementation of the Indian Ocean Regional […]
CRIMARIO meets Eastern Africa Standby Force
During the summit of the Blue Economy in Nairobi, the CRIMARIO team led by Admiral François-Régis Cloup-Mandavialle and Glen Forbes, Principal from Oceanus, visited the planning headquarters of the Eastern Africa Standby Force (EASF) in order to explore opportunity of cooperation in the Maritime Domain Awareness field. After a protocolar visit to Doctor Abdillahi Omar […]
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 the benefit of 6 Comorian officers from different administrations involved in the action of State at sea (ANAM […]
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 awareness. Capacity building through training is one of the strong points of CRIMARIO, which […]
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 dedicated to maritime data analysis for 15 participants of Kenya, Madagascar and Seychelles (15-26 October, Sarova […]
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 countries, able to use and master IORIS platform on a daily […]
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 learned how to clean and select shipping data; both by using Excel functions and SQL language. […]
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 national AIS network. It was coordinated by David Nattrass, CRIMARIO Information Sharing component […]
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 Madagascar) and 9 Malagasy administrations. The ceremony was attended by the EU Ambassador in Madagascar and ambassadors […]