The Information Fusion Centre – Indian Ocean Region (IFC-IOR) arrange final yr has began functioning as an data sharing hub of maritime data and “cuing incident responses” to maritime safety conditions via a collaborative strategy, Navy sources stated.
At the simply concluded Goa Maritime Conclave (GMC), National Security Adviser Ajit Doval had supplied nations within the IOR use of the ability to trace motion of vessels on the excessive seas.
“The centre is actively interacting with the maritime community and has already built linkages with 18 countries and 15 multinational/maritime security centres,” one official stated.
Major centres
The main centres with which common alternate of maritime safety data is being undertaken embody Virtual Regional Maritime Traffic Centre (VRMTC), Maritime Security Centre – Horn of Africa(MSCHOA), Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery (ReCAAP), Information Fusion Centre-Singapore (IFC-SG), and International Maritime Bureau – Piracy Reporting Centre (IMB PRC).
“The centre is administering a website to undertake collation and dissemination of information on a daily basis and also hosts the Monthly Maritime Security Update (MMSU) highlighting analysis on incidents, warnings and advisories in IOR,” the official added.
The IFC-IOR was inaugurated in December 2018 inside the premises of the Navy’s Information Management and Analysis Centre (IMAC) in Gurugram.The IMAC is the only level centre linking all of the coastal radar chains to generate a seamless real-time image of the practically 7,500-km shoreline.
New joiners
Several Indian Ocean littoral states have joined the coastal radar chain community. These embody Maldives, Mauritius, Sri Lanka and Seychelles. Bangladesh is ready to affix the community and talks are on with Thailand as effectively.
All nations which have signed white transport data alternate agreements with India are IFC companions. The centre will host liaison officers from accomplice nations. Infrastructure to accommodate them is presently being arrange, officers stated. Several nations had evinced curiosity in posting liaison officers. “We have already designated an officer to be at the IFC. Once it is formalised the officer will function from the embassy before moving to the centre,” a diplomatic supply of an IOR nation stated.
Presently, the alternate of knowledge is being undertaken by digital means, utilizing phone calls, faxes, emails and video conferencing over Internet.
Addressing the GMC hosted final week by the Navy and attended by 10 Indian Ocean littoral states, Mr. Doval said that India aspires to be a “major contributor” to maritime security within the area with energetic cooperation of all and “we would like our neighbours to draw upon it, consider it as their own facility” he said and added that relatively than “duplicating it” we are able to increase it additional by their cooperation. His feedback on avoiding duplication are necessary within the context of reviews that Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are contemplating establishing comparable fusion centres.
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