With MSAF responsible for collating and issuing coastal warnings for the Fiji national area of responsibility within the NAVAREA XIV region our Aids to Navigation (AtoN)/ Information Officer Sunil Kumar is currently in Niue attending a Maritime Safety Information (MSI) training facilitated by Rescue Coordination Centre New Zealand a branch of Maritime New Zealand.
Maritime New Zealand (MNZ) is the NAVAREA XIV Coordinator, the authority tasked with collecting and issuing long range navigational warnings.
MSI is promulgated in accordance with the provisions of the SOLAS Convention as amended and Section 101 of the Maritime Transport Act.
PC: Lynina Talagi
IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim has condemned the suspected attacks on two tankers off the coast of Oman that occurred earlier on Thursday (13 June).
Read more here: bit.ly/1Sy5v63
As we begin another week, MSAF again in partnership with the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) and the International Maritime Organization (IMO) organized a one day training on GloFouling, the outcome of the workshop is the setting up of a national taskforce on BioFouling management and invasive aquatic species.
Fiji is one of the 12 countries recognized by the IMO as leading partnering country of the GEF - IMO - UNDP GloFouling partnership.
The MSAF in partnership with the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) is currently holding a weeklong Regional Hull BioFouling workshop. The workshop features participants from 14 Pacific Island Countries and 1 territory Island.
Lah-Josh How come they don’t mention Marshall Islands 🇲🇭? You must be reppin Fiji 🇫🇯?
Thanks Fiji
