December 15, 2021
Mr. Ulrich Häussermann the Programme Coordinator of UNODC Global Maritime Crime Porgramme for the Gulf of Aden and Red Sea visited Aden port today. He met Deputy Executive Chairman and discussed the Office activities in Aden and the progress made so far in their support to the Port Authority. After delivering basic knowledge training of Vessel Traffic Services (VTS) to the port's control tower staff, UNODC will further deliver training in this field and the use of marine telecommuncucation devices both operation and maintenance.
Dr. Mohammed Amzerba sent his appreciaition to UNODC for their continous support and look forward to receiving the experts in port security early next year and the training for the port staff in VTS and the use/repair of our communication equipment. He also added that investigations to support our maritime training center should be done in order to upgrade its capacity to deliver more and quality training programms of specific interest training to attain STCW certifications.
The meeting attended by Mr. Omar and Eng. Saleh from UNODC Aden.