Project news
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,...
Maritime domain news
Why the EU needs to be a global maritime security provider?
[Source: EEAS] 27/01/2021 - On 25 January we launched the first pilot of the new Coordinated Maritime Presences (CMP) concept in the Gulf of Guinea off the coast of West Africa. In addition to our existing naval operations in the Mediterranean and in the Western India...
MICA Center annual report on worldwide maritime piracy and robbery
For the second consecutive year, the Maritime Information Cooperation & Awareness Center (MICA Center) publishes an annual review of maritime piracy and robbery events. This report identifies and characterises the events recorded in 2020 that affect maritime...
Africa’s prosperity is tied to its oceans and seas
[Source: ISS Africa] A major strength of Africa’s 2016 Lomé Charter on maritime security and development is its recognition that no country can singlehandedly prevent maritime threats or sustainably develop its maritime domain. The charter calls on neighbouring states...
AN OPERATIONAL PLATFORM
for the maritime security community
YARIS is operational since September 2020. It offers a secure working environment to the community (collaborative intranet), and operational functions covering the spectrum of needs (anticipation, alert, coordination, command, legal) operated through the 3 application modules: advanced mapping, messaging, logbook.
YARIS can integrate various sources of information (third-party systems, sensors). Servers and encrypted data are hosted in an ISO27001 data centre. Access to YARIS is via a virtual private network.
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What is the GoGIN+ project?
The GoGIN+ project (Gulf of Guinea Inter-regional Network – Extension), financed by the European Union, is a direct extension of the GoGIN project, which was started in 2016 and completed in October 2021. Its aim is to contribute to maritime safety and security in the Gulf of Guinea in order to promote the blue economy and the economic development of countries. Specifically, the GOGIN+ project supports the deployment, within the maritime authorities of the Gulf of Guinea, of the maritime information sharing and incident management platform called YARIS (Yaoundé Architecture Regional Information System), developed and designed in close partnership with the Yaoundé Architecture authorities.
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