CRIMARIO II - Critical Maritime Routes in the Indian Ocean
Interconnecting the Indo Pacific

Bangladesh, Comoros, Cook Islands, Djibouti, Egypt, French Polynesia, Indonesia, Kenya, Kiribati, Madagascar, Malaysia, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Micronesia, Mozambique, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Seychelles, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Thailand, Tonga, Tuvalu, United Republic of Tanzania, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Wallis and Futuna, Yemen

Published on 05/05/2023

Objective

EU CRIMARIO aims to strengthen maritime safety and security in the Indo Pacific enhancing maritime domain awareness through information sharing, capacity building and training.

€17.5m

BUDGET
01/01/2015

PROJECT START
10 years

DURATION

PROJECT FUNDED BY

Interconnecting the Indo Pacific through information sharing

The European Union’s maritime capacity building initiative CRIMARIO I, established between 2015 and 2019, contributed to enhancing maritime domain awareness (MDA) through information sharing, capacity building and training, in the Western Indian Ocean.

This was achieved through the development of the IORIS platform, a maritime coordination and communications tool for the region, combined to extensive training programmes on maritime data processing.

To find out more, read CRIMARIO I project-sheet

Since CRIMARIO I was a success, the EU decided to extend the project’s geographical reach with the ambition of inter-connecting the Indo-Pacific through CRIMARIO II (2020-2025), also by implementing law enforcement capacity building activities.

This action supports the EU’s recently promulgated strategy for cooperation in the Indo- Pacific in which the EU underlines its contribution to global maritime security, promoting an open and rules-based regional maritime architecture, from Africa, over Asia to the Pacific.

CRIMARIO II pursues two main objectives:

1. Enhancing information exchange and analysis, and crisis and incident management.
2. Strengthening inter-agency cooperation in maritime surveillance, policing, investigation and judicial matters.

CRIMARIO’s Initiatives

To meet its objectives, CRIMARIO offers the regional partners several initiatives, which include:

• IORIS: a neutral and secure web portal for information sharing and incident management, which enhances interagency collaboration and regional cooperation. Its functionalities integrate messaging chat and alerts; advanced mapping, vessel intercept, markers; file exchange, forms and document archiving and the provision of satellite AIS data.

• SHARE.IT : an interoperability framework, established in partnership with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and Indo-Pacific information fusion centres, to develop maritime situational awareness. A community of stakeholders is set up with the ambition of developing a common technological solution, in order to be able to link existing information-exchange systems together in a digital and secure way.

• The organisation and participation in maritime exercises with the objective of enhancing interagency collaboration and regional cooperation. The IORIS platform is often used as the main communication tool during the exercises in conjunction with other tools.

• Tailor-made training packages designed to meet the specific needs of different countries. These trainings address law enforcement including operational maritime law, evidence and forensics compilation as well as maritime safety, especially in search and rescue, and in tackling marine oil pollution.

For more information on CRIMARIO: crimario.eu