Analysing the prospect of the maritime common information sharing environment’s implementation and feasibility in Montenegro

Abstract

This paper outlines an extensive analysis of the case of Montenegro’s maritime surveillance system becoming integrated within the European Common Information Sharing Environment (CISE). Threats to secure maritime borders across Europe are ever-present and regularly demand coordinated efforts between the member states to tackle and prevent them, e.g. illegal immigration across the Mediterranean. Administration for Maritime Safety and Port Management (AMSPM) in Montenegro is a member of the ANDROMEDA EU project that seeks to facilitate deployments and demonstrations of CISE trials across the European regions, towards their endorsement readiness. AMSPM is now at the forefront of assessing and deploying the CISE components in Montenegro. It thus appropriately evaluates the operational aspects, observes the CISE implementations in some European states, formulates the impact for other national stakeholders, as well as the very prospect of the resulting augmented maritime surveillance in the country. This substantiates the content of this paper as the feasibility of the CISE deployment in Montenegro, supported by a snapshot of the cost-benefit analysis. We aspire to offer novel perspectives and insights that could be a universally useful experience to different CISE implementation initiatives, especially for countries or regions of similar smaller sizes and coastal area.

A Maritime Big Data Framework Integration in a Common Information Sharing Environment

“…For instance, mostly exchanged services include collaboration services, vessel details, location and voyage, intervention assets, incident history/event notification, identified risks, cargo and distributed search services. The CISE Data & Services Model is based on XSD (XML Schema Definition) accompanied by UML diagrams (Unified Modelling Language), providing the models for classes and subclasses, related to enumeration of authority and message and service core entities ( [11], [12], [13]).…”

Planning a Case for Shared Data Retrieval across the European Maritime Common Information Sharing Environment

“…Vessel Traffic Management Information System (VTMIS) with Albania, South Adriatic connectivity projects also including Italy, installation of National Maritime Single Window (NMSW) in Montenegro ( [7][13] [14]) and recent H2020 EU projects COMPASS2020 [2] and RESPOND-A [15] on tools for expedited maritime surveillance and responsivity. In fact, AMSPM just completed a participation in EU H2020 project ANDROMEDA [6][7] [8] working on enhancing the CISE data and services models (eCISE) and conducting trial implementations. In the ANDROMEDA project, AMSPM participated in the Adriatic-Ionian trial with partners from Greece and Italy (Italian Navy, Greek Maritime Affairs and Insular Policy Ministry, Hellenic Police etc.)…”

“…This example shows two stakeholders with specific CISE Adaptors using a single CISE Node (e.g. owned by AMSPM in a proposed case of the CISE implementation in Montenegro [6][7] [8]) to connect to the CISE Network.…”

Maritime information sharing environment deployment using the advanced multilayered Data Lake capabilities

“…The model is developed upon XSD (XML Schema Definition) which uses the UML diagrams (Unified Modelling Language) containing the models for Authority, Message and Service Core Entities, which are divided into enumerations and classes [6]. Specifically, the enhanced CISE Model (eCISE v.2.2.0) [7] was developed within Project ANDROMEDA (EU H2020) and extends the CISE features on the land domain adding some classes to specific events and categories related to land surveillance situations and activities ( [8], [9]).…”