Mercosur Navies train in the Coamas 2022 exercise in Buenos Aires

The Argentine Navy hosted, in Buenos Aires, the South Atlantic Maritime Area Coordinator (Coamas) 2022 International Maritime Traffic Naval Control Exercise.

Its objective is to put into practice the regulations and norms for the cooperation and guidance of maritime traffic in the South Atlantic and its main associated waterways.

The different maritime traffic structures of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay navies took part in it.

The Coamas also allows for improving the coordination of the actions inherent to the monitoring, management, and defense of maritime transport, fishing, and other economic activities developed in the waters of national jurisdiction and interest.

INCIDENT SIMULATION

The exercise, carried out annually since 1970, was conducted by the Naval Command of Maritime Transit (COTM).

The organization of the exercise was in charge of the Coamas, temporarily based in Argentina since March of this year.

Coamas was responsible for setting up different fictitious situations, simulating incidents that require a combined and multinational action for the protection of merchant and fishing traffic, to evaluate not only the operational procedures but also the communication systems and response times of the respective organizations of each Navy involved.

The Argentine delegation included more than 50 personnel from the Fluvial Naval Area, the Puerto Belgrano Naval Base, the Mar del Plata Naval Base, the Ushuaia Naval Base, and the Río Grande Naval Station.

With information from InfoDefensa

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