Article sourced from the IMO website. All credit rightfully belongs to the International Maritime Organization South Africa has become the 17th signatory* to the Jeddah Amendment to the Djibouti Code of Conduct (DCoC). The Jeddah Amendment was adopted in 2017 to broaden the scope of the DCoC, which was developed and adopted in 2009 by…

Participants drawn from 18 agencies within the Kenya maritime sector took part in a two-day National Maritime Security Strategy development workshop, held in Mombasa (7-8 March 2022), and funded under the EU Port Security and Safety of Navigation project, of which the International Maritime Organization is a partner.  “This effort will help combat illegal, unregulated,…

Senior maritime security officials and law enforcement agencies from Signatory States to the Jeddah Amendment to the Djibouti Code of Conduct, 2017, are participating in a regional training programme on Combating New and Emerging Threats to Maritime Security.  The programme is being held at the Jeddah Academy for Maritime Science and Security Studies in Jeddah,…

By Kiruja Micheni 23 senior government officials from 11 DCoC signatory States* are attending a regional workshop on the “IMO whole of Government Approach to maritime security”, taking place at the Djibouti Regional Training Centre (DRTC), Djibouti (22-25 Nov 2021). The IMO led workshop supports the objectives of the Jeddah Amendment to promote inter-agency cooperation and…