Sea Tech Week® 2024 review: Ireland in the spotlight and innovative maritime exchanges for the 1,000 participants
Sea Tech Week® 2024 ended on Thursday, October 17 at the Le Quartz convention center in Brest, bringing together more than 1,000 participants who came to explore the advances and challenges of maritime innovation. This event, now a must for the sector, attracted...
YARIS, main asset for the Grand African NEMO (GANO) 2024 exercise
Grand African NEMO 2024 (GANO 2024) is the annual event of operational cooperation, co-organized by France and the Yaoundé Architecture, aiming at reinforcing security and safety of maritime spaces in the Gulf of Guinea and increasing interoperability between the...
Training of Grand Popo Lookouts in YARIS 2.0 as part of Exercise GANO_24
The Beninese Navy trained lookouts at the Grand Popo Naval Base in the use of the new version of the YARIS platform, as part of the GANO 25 exercise which began this Monday, November 4. This initiative is part of an approach to optimizing maritime surveillance, with...
Intervention of the GoGIN II Project at the EU-Africa Chamber of Commerce Event on Maritime Sector Financing
On 17th and 18th October, the GoGIN II project was invited to a major event organised by the EU-Africa Chamber of Commerce, focused on financing the maritime sector in Africa, held in Abidjan. This meeting brought together experts and key decision-makers, providing a...
Meet our project team this week in Brest as YARIS is showcased among other EU projects at the SeaTech Week 2024 on display at the EnMar’s stand
Sea Tech Week is an international event dedicated to marine and maritime science and technology. This year’s edition is happening in Brest from the 15th to the 17th of October on “Maritime safety and security plus sustainable innovation”. YARIS was...
Maritime safety: delivery of the Yaris platform is delayed
Initially expected for April 2025, the completion of the GUlfofGuinea Interregional Network project, known as “GoGIN Il”, risks being postponed by several months. Launched in May 2023, this initiative led by Expertise France (structure attached to the French...
Yaris Mission to CECLANT in preparation of the Grand African Nemo #GANO 2024
In preparation for GANO 2024, the YARIS project team went on a mission to Brest from September 23 to 26, 2024. The mission mainly aimed to present YARIS 2.0, which will facilitate the exchange of information between participants, including officials involved in...
Successful YARIS 2.0 Training Mission during SIREN 24
From September 24 to 26, 2024, a team of experts from the GoGIN II Project and the Yaoundé Architecture successfully carried out a training course dedicated to the YARIS platform, as part of the SIREN24 exercise, organized at the Pôle Écoles Méditerranée Nord (PEM) in...
Yaris ownership and management transfert to Gulf of Guinea : Technical Workshop
In September 2024, a crucial technical meeting took place in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, involving representatives from the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), and the Gulf of Guinea...
Strengthening Maritime Security: GOGIN II’s Role in FCWC’s Training Workshop
From September 11 to 13, 2024, the Fisheries Committee for the West Central Gulf of Guinea (FCWC/CPCO) hosted a pivotal Regional Patrol Support Training Workshop in Tema, Ghana. This event gathered participants from the Fisheries Monitoring, Control and Surveillance...
YARIS 2.0 Training: Towards the Transfer of Ownership to Maritime Stakeholders in the Gulf of Guinea Region
In line with the strategy to transfer ownership of the YARIS platform to the region, a YARIS 2.0 training session was held from September 3 to 5 in Lomé. The event brought together maritime stakeholders from Zone E, including representatives from national centers and...
A strategic meeting with the director of the CIC to consolidate the partnership with Yaoundé Architecture as part of the transfer of ownership to the region.
On 3 September 2024, Sam Megwa , Strategic Director of the EU GOGIN project, and Francois Marty, YARIS Expert and Trainer, were warmly received by Capt. Emmanuel Bell Bell, Head of Information Management and Communication at the INTER-REGIONAL COORDINATION CENTRE #ICC...
Launch of the “Safe Domain III” operation
On Monday, 5 August 2024, the launch of the operation “Safe Domain III”, for the Multinational Maritime Coordination Centre (MMC) in the ECOWAS area covering Togo, Nigeria and Benin, was held in Cotonou. The YARIS system is one of the platforms selected by the...
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YARIS 2.0 Training for the benefit of ECOWAS maritime centers in zone F in Abidjan
In partnership with ECOWAS CEDEAO , the GOGIN II project organized a training workshop on the use of the YARIS 2.0 maritime platform from July 8 to 10, 2024 in Abidjan for the benefit of maritime centers and actors in zone F of the ECOWAS zone (Coast of Ivory, Ghana,...
Guinea’s Maritime Prefecture in the YARIS 2.0 era
Invited by the Maritime Prefecture of Guinea, represented by Colonel Sow, Expertise France through GoGIN II, the project that promotes the YARIS platform and financed by the European Union, organised a training workshop on the latest version of the platform known as...
The Yaoundé Architecture strengthens its pool of YARIS trainers
[Abidjan-ARSTM, 15 December 2023] The Permanent Secretary for State Action at Sea, represented by Colonel AKE Josée Nicole, chaired the closing ceremony of the train of trainers session in the use of YARIS (Yaoundé Architecture Regional Information System), in the...
Technology and maritime security in Africa: Opportunities and challenges in Gulf of Guinea
[Source : Science Direct] Maritime security threats undermine safety and security at sea and, in turn, coastal states’ efforts to harness the resources in their maritime domain. This assertion is true for coastal states and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) on...
Equatorial Guinea centres trained at YARIS
[Malabo, 20 to 24 November 2023] The coordination of maritime safety and security is essential to monitor and combat any illegal activity at sea (suspicious vessels, armed attacks, acts of piracy, pollution, illegal fishing, etc.). In Equatorial Guinea, this is...
The YARIS users speak out
Effective cooperation during pirate attacks, thanks to YARIS
In the framework of the fight against maritime insecurity and the response to an event, access to knowledge of the maritime domain is crucial, as well as the sharing of information to prompt the cooperation of the authorities in crisis situations. The YARIS platform...
YARIS and SKYLIGHT join forces to better monitor the sea
Combating illicit activities at sea is crucial for ensuring a peaceful and sustainable use of marine resources. But how can governments and nongovernmental organisations identify illegal fishing, drug trafficking, bunkering, and other activities among the thousands of...