EU names CPA as Bangladesh’s hub for Indo-Pacific maritime cooperation

The EU’s Critical Maritime Routes in the Indian Ocean (CRIMARIO) programme has been expanding the Indo-Pacific Regional Information Sharing (IORIS) platform into a central hub for secure operational coordination among maritime agencies.

It supports everything from incident reports and vessel tracking to geospatial analysis and joint responses to piracy, trafficking, fishing, marine pollution and search-and-rescue operations, a CPA press release said.

The EU has designated the Chattogram Port Authority (CPA) as Bangladesh’s focal point for its Indo-Pacific maritime information-sharing network.
The decision offers the country a larger role in a system used by over 150 organisations across 57 nations and may streamline how Bangladesh’s agencies use IORIS.
CPA officials attended the IORIS policy board’s third standing committee meeting last month.

The new EU decision offers the country a larger role in a system now used by more than 150 organisations across 57 nations, domestic media outlets reported.

It is also expected to streamline how Bangladesh’s agencies like the Navy, the Coast Guard, port authorities, customs, fisheries and emergency response units use IORIS.

CPA officials represented Bangladesh at the IORIS policy board’s third standing committee meeting in Manila last month.

Fibre2Fashion News Desk (DS)