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In the context of the EU funded projects providing technical assistance to ENP beneficiary countries, EMSA invited Black and Caspian Sea and SAFEMED IV Projects’ representatives participating in the Pilot Project on AIS information sharing to attend the 15th MAREΣ Experts Working Group meeting organised in collaboration with the Italian Coast Guard and held in Venice on 27 November 2018. The meet ...

In the context of the EU funded SAFEMED IV project, EMSA hosted the Training on Ship Security on 13-14 November 2018. Overall, 14 participants from Algeria, Egypt Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, and Tunisia have successfully completed the 16 hours course. The training covered various aspects of International and European maritime legislation on maritime security and it included a series of practical exe ...

On 10-11 October 2018, the Jordan Maritime Commission (JMC) hosted the 2nd Steering Committee of the EU funded project SAFEMED IV in Aqaba, Jordan. The meeting was attended by various participants from the project’s Beneficiary Countries, namely from Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Libya, Lebanon, Palestine and Tunisia. In addition, representatives from the Secretariat of the Mediterranean Memorandum of ...

The EU funded SAFEMED IV project organized an Oil Spill Pollution Response Exercise in the waters of Cyprus with the EMSA contracted oil spill pollution response stand-by vessel M/V Alexandria. The event was held in Limassol, Cyprus, from the 25 to the 27 September 2018. The activity was part of Component 4 of the project “Protection of the marine environment” which provides the beneficiaries wit ...

In the framework of the EU funded SAFEMED IV project, EMSA organised a training for VTS Operators. Overall, ten participants from Algeria, Israel, Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia have undergone the training from 27 August to 5 September 2018, in Turku, Finland. The training reflected, as much as possible, the guidelines set out in the IALA (International Association of Marine Aids to Navigation and L ...