3 Best Management Practices and Pre-Transit Preparation
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3 Best Management Practices and Pre-Transit Preparation

  3.1 A State's counter-piracy policy should ensure that ships entitled to fly its flag are aware of, and comply with, all relevant aspects of the latest version of BMP, and in particular, ships should:

  • .1 complete a risk analysis prior to entering the High Risk Area (as provided for in BMP); and

  • .2 register each transit with Maritime Security Centre – Horn of Africa (MSCHOA) and report to United Kingdom Marine Trade Operations (UKMTO).

  3.2 The policy should also describe follow-up procedures for cases where ships are reported as being non-compliant by military authorities in the region.

Parent topic: Annex – Interim Guidance for Flag States on Measures to Prevent and Mitigate Somalia-Based Piracy
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