 The Ecuador like signatory of the International Conventions for the Security of the Human Life in the Sea and of Search and Rescue, it has assumed the commitment of to mobilize their available means for auxiliary and to protect to the merchant ships of any nationality that are in emergency situation inside the jurisdictional marine area of their responsibility.
In the face of the risks that it outlines the threat of terrorist acts that you/they put in danger to people and goods, and that they can affect to the economy of the country, especially in the marine field, the National Government settled down as Politics of State the Marine Protection implementing in the Ecuador the Code of Protection of Ships and Port Facilities (PBIP).
In this sense, the Armada of the Ecuador through the Merchant Marina General Address and of the Coast, it has implemented the present System of Information of Marine Traffic Ecuador (SITRAME) that uses the prosecution of data to carry out the pursuit and control of the international ships in their sailing for the area of Ecuadorian responsibility.
As much as adult is the number of ships introduced in the system, more reliable and cash will be this, consequently the security and protection of all the types of ships that traffic for jurisdictional waters increases. For this reason all the national merchant ships and foreigners of international traffic are forced to participate in this system, with the transmission of messages on a programmed trip, the same ones that have been designed under an established format. |
