An ad-hoc multilateral cooperative agreement on the North and West African sub-regional Maritime Rescue Coordination Center (MRCC) was signed on Thursday (3 March 2011), IMO press release said.
The agreement inked in the presence of representatives from Cape Verde, the Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Mauritania, Morocco and Senegal, establishes a new Morocco MRCC near Rabat, with its associated sub-centers.
The Morocco sub-regional MRCC, located at Bouznika, a seaside area 20 km from Rabat, will join those already commissioned in Mombasa, Kenya, in 2006; in Cape Town, South Africa, in 2007; in Lagos, Nigeria, in 2008; and in Monrovia, Liberia, in 2009, thus completing the final link in the chain of sub-regional African MRCCs, each with its own network of associated sub-centers.
The Morocco sub-regional MRCC, located at Bouznika, a seaside area 20 km from Rabat, will join those already commissioned in Mombasa, Kenya, in 2006; in Cape Town, South Africa, in 2007; in Lagos, Nigeria, in 2008; and in Monrovia, Liberia, in 2009, thus completing the final link in the chain of sub-regional African MRCCs, each with its own network of associated sub-centers.