Our services

Core Services

The core services, which the centre provides in maritime affairs & coastal zone management, are as follows:

• Education:

  Capacity building (training), short and long term training courses in Maritime and Coastal management /development

• Consultancy:

  The Centre provides professional consultancy to governments, private and not for profit organizations for Maritime, marine resources, Coastal zone management/development

• Research:

  The centre researches in various activities in maritime affairs, marine and coastal zone management

• Advocacy:

  The centre advocates coastal and maritime affairs of Somalia in local, national, regional and international level. It promotes integrated management in marine & coastal area.

Maritime affairs

Services that the centre provides in maritime affairs include:

• Port and Harbour:

  Operations, Management and development- all aspects of Port and Harbour services

• Shipping Operations and Management, e. g
  • — Ship sale and purchase
  • — Chartering (Third party)- legal aspects of charter parties
  • — Port agency- communications, documentations and governing law.
• Cargo Operations and Management:

  Operations onboard or at port terminals, safety aspects and effective management.

• Shipping Law and Marine Insurance:

  Mainly international conventions governing maritime and claims arising from various disputes or losses.

• The Law of the Sea (UNCLOS):

  The centre can give advice to government matters arising from maritime boundary and other maritime zones.

• Maritime security:

  Safe navigation of ships, welfare of seafarers, safety at port.

Coastal Zone Management (CZM)

The services that the centre provides in coastal zone management are as follows:

• Marine resources assessment and valuation:

  Estimation of the living and nonliving resources and valuation of their prices

• Environmental impact assessment:

  Impacts of human activities in the ocean and coastal zone

• Fisheries management and development:

  e. g fisheries policy, assessment, regulation and monitoring fishing capacity

• Coastal Zone planning/management:

  planning any areas of given coastal areas

• Protected areas management:

  to establish and develop management approaches in protected areas in marine space

• Pollution control in marine and coastal zone:

  to monitor pollution and address as appropriate. Formulate management approaches.

• Integrated Coastal Zone management:

  formulating policies to integrate human activities affecting coastal zone

• Large marine ecosystem management:

  Somali current & Red Sea- large marine ecosystem (LME)- ecosystem based management approach to develop resources on sustainable basis.

• Coastal & Ocean policy:

  formulating and implementing policies relating to coastal & marine space. To coordinate and work with local, regional, national and global bodies

• Ballast water management:

  to control transfer of foreign living organisms during ballast and de-ballast in territorial water and at port.

• Hydro-graphic surveying:

  to carry out mapping of the seabed to produce morphology of the seabed and water depth.

• Coastal hazard management:

  Flood control and risk assessment

• Coastal water Management:

  Managing and assessing coastal water quality

• Geographical information systems (GIS) :

  Mapping and modelling coastal areas