Ghana Maritime Authority acquires surveillance vessel The President has opened a multi-purpose Vessel Traffic Management Information System (VTMIIS) in Accra. The system is to be used for continuous electronic surveillance of the entire coast of Ghana. The system will also ensure automatic identification of vessels operating on the Volta Lake. The system, the first in West and Central Africa, has been synchronized into a central platform that can be used by the various security agencies, as well as vital institutions in Ghana’s maritime industry. For instance, VTMIIS has ten monitoring stations all of which are manned by different security agencies like National Security, NACOB, Fisheries Department, Ghana Immigration Service, Ghana Navy, Volta Lake Transport Company, Ghana Ports and Harbors Authority, amongst others. All these institutions have different mandates but can work concurrently on the VTMIIS platform. The about 16-million Euros facility, a collaboration between the governments of Ghana and Finland, has a long range identification system that can track vessels within a range of 1,000 nautical miles. • The system meets up to 99.8% of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) standards. • The VTMIS is an integrated system to enhance electronic surveillance on the entire coast of Ghana and beyond, it also includes an automatic identification system for vessels and boats operating on the Volta Lake. • It has eight remote sensor sites for coastal surveillance, in addition to three remote base stations. • It also has weather sensors.
Posted on: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 09:53:10 +0000
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