Buenos Aires – At the headquarters of the General Staff of the Navy, from the facilities of the Argentine Local Operational Control Command, the International Naval Maritime Traffic Control Officer Course began this Monday, which is taught annually, under virtual mode.
On this occasion, 51 Navy officers from 11 countries on the American continent participate: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay and Peru.
This theoretical-practical course focuses on the current concepts and procedures of Naval Maritime Traffic Control (CNTM), which are used to conduct operations to protect maritime traffic and its security in times of crisis; and consolidates knowledge of maritime safety and relationships between the different institutions dedicated to the sea.
The course is within the provisions established in the Coordination Plan for the Defense of Inter-American Maritime Traffic, made up of almost all of the Navies of the American continent.
This plan provides for the delivery of Naval Maritime Traffic Control courses that enable standardized instruction for personnel serving in the signatory Navies. At the regional international level they are dictated only by the Navies of Argentina, Brazil and Chile.
For two weeks, personnel are instructed in the application of the CNTM Inter-American Tactical Procedures, which include the guidance, support and defense of maritime traffic; the law of the sea applied to them; and the understanding of the merchant shipping and fishing world, among other topics.
The graduate receives the appropriate tools necessary to provide advice either from land or at sea, acting as an interface between the maritime community and the naval force that must provide protection and defense to maritime traffic, navigating within the SAR jurisdiction ( search and rescue) of a coastal State, if it were threatened at the regional level.
Once the requirements are approved, upon graduation the students are trained and qualified as Naval Maritime Traffic Control Officers.
