Manila, The Philippines – 10 August 2022
From 8 to 10 August 2022, the Countering Terrorist Travel (‘CT Travel’) Programme together with the Bureau of Immigration and the Coast Guard of the Republic of the Philippines conducted a joint three-day scoping mission in the southeast Philippines to validate the technical feasibility of collecting and transmitting maritime crew and passenger biographical and biometrics data real-time to the passenger information unit of the Philippines, named APIS Operations Center (APOC), located in Manila. The Philippines Coast Guard availed of its flagship vessel, BRP Teresa Magbanua for the mission, enabling the joint team to reach remote locations as far as 10 nautical miles from the shore to successfully transmit test data in various maritime and coastal environments with very low or intermittent internet connectivity.
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