Maritime Security

Maritime security and crimes at sea

Maritime security

Maritime safety and security

Sea border security system

The GMDSS also provides for urgency and safety communications and the dissemination of maritime safety information, including navigational and meteorological warnings.

These States are SOLAS Contracting Governments are under the purview of the Maritime Safety Committee (MSC) of the IMO.

The special measures to enhance maritime security, which the IMO has adopted on 12 December 2002 within the framework of the International Convention on the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), 1974 as amended (SOLAS Convention), entered into force on the 1 July 2004.

The special measures to enhance maritime security

Improved port and maritime security.

SOLAS International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea

Initiatives have been taken for proliferation security and maritime security.

Through the Global Technical Co operation Programme on Maritime Security, the IMO Secretariat has continued to take a proactive role in assisting Member States to comply with the Special measures to enhance maritime security.

to enhance maritime security

States should enhance maritime security, especially in combating sea piracy.

The maritime security measures also require States which are SOLAS Contracting Governments to provide general guidance on the measures considered appropriate to reduce the security risk to ships flying their flag when at sea.

The amendments to the 1974 International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) that were adopted by the 1988 Conference of Contracting Governments entered into force on 1 February 1992, introducing GMDSS.

The amendments to the 1974 International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) that were adopted by the 1988 Conference of Contracting Governments entered into force on 1 February 1992, introducing GMDSS.

The amendments to the 1974 International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) that were adopted by the 1988 Conference of Contracting Governments entered into force on 1 February 1992, introducing GMDSS.

41. Welcomes the work of the International Maritime Organization in developing amendments to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea and to the International Convention on Maritime Search and Rescue on the delivery of persons rescued at sea to a place of safety

Effective implementation of the maritime security measures in SOLAS and the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code can also contribute significantly to a reduction in criminal activities at sea.

Using available resources, the Coastguard Department is engaged in securing the Yemeni coasts by conducting marine patrols to check for any possible breaches occurring by sea.

The results of this research project were published in May 2004. The main focus was on the international tools adopted by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to promote maritime security, in particular the 1974 International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) and the 1988 Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Security of Navigation (SUA) and related Protocol.

Concentration of the sea border security system on the following items in order to control the coastline

The project provided an overview on the efforts carried out by IMO to improve maritime security after the attacks on 11 September 2001, including the amendments to the SOLAS Convention and the adoption of the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code (ISPS Code).

Maritime security and crimes at sea are an important element in the management of our oceans.

The maritime security measures also establish the right of a State which is a SOLAS Contracting Government to deny the entry of ships into its ports or to expel from its ports ships when it considers that the ship in question either does not comply with the provisions of the special measures to enhance maritime security or it presents a threat to the safety or security of persons, ships, port facilities and other property.

The placement of buoys by Turkish Forces close to the western maritime security line has not been resolved.

The section is, thus, responsible for maritime security, aviation security, physical security, personnel security, IT security, emergency management, threat assessments and a newly established situation centre.

(a) International Maritime Organization (IMO) International Maritime Dangerous Goods (IMDG) Code (amendment 32 04, of mandatory application for the 155 contracting parties to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS 74) as from 1 January 2006)

GMDSS Global Maritime Distress and Safety System

Global maritime distress and safety system

Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation, 1988

Convention on the Marking of Plastic Explosives for the Purpose of Detection (1991)

(i) Maritime Safety Agency

Using available resources, the Coastguard Department is engaged in securing the Yemeni coasts by conducting marine patrols to check for any possible breaches occurring by sea.

The instruments dealing with maritime safety (8 and 9) have the lowest participation rate.

Taking Safety Littorally

South African Maritime Safety Authority (SAMSA)

The agenda of the MSC contains a varied of issues but the Measures to enhance maritime security have been well established as a standing item.

The ISPS Code, which aims at enhancing maritime security on board ships and at the ship port interface, was adopted in 2002 under the auspices of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) as part of a series of amendments to the 1974 Safety of Life at Sea Convention (SOLAS).

Since February 2002, the MSC established the Maritime Security Working Group (MSWG) which meets during each session of the MSC, in parallel to the plenary session and intersessionally when required.

The revision and updating of the special measures to enhance maritime security as well as the establishment of new security related requirements are the competency of the States.

The Maritime Safety Committee (MSC) of IMO, in an effort to address a number of practical problems which have arisen either during the stage of the initial implementation of the special measures to enhance maritime security or following their entry into force as a result of the approach a taken by a number of States which are SOLAS Contracting Government, has adopted a number of performance standards, recommendations and guidance notes.

187. The Subcommittee on the Safety of Navigation approved for adoption by MSC an area to be avoided lying on the separation line between traffic separation lanes in the Strait of Dover traffic separation scheme.20