The Italian Navy trains Libyan personnel to coordinate rescue at sea

(To Marina Militare)
05/05/25

Communications, cartography, management systems and much more in this latest important training project that came to life in Tripoli between the Navy and the Libyan Coast Guard. A training module provided by the Italian military, divided into 80 hours in total, divided into 4 weeks, and attended by 20 military personnel from the Libyan Navy Coast Guard (LNCG).

The format is that of "On the job training" on the workstations of the newly established Libyan Maritime Rescue Coordination Center (LMRCC), a cutting-edge centre in terms of technological equipment, destined to become fully operational at the end of the Libyan personnel's education and training path.

It is precisely in this path that the Navy is providing an essential enabling contribution to the use of the central stations. In fact, it is a sharing of knowledge on systems that the Navy personnel are able to use with mastery, and which aims to give a progressive impulse towards the full operation of the center for the coordination and management of search and rescue events at sea - SAR (Search And Rescue).

The project, which will end on May 22, is one of the many expressions of the broad collaboration between the navies of Italy and Libya, which is based on theOperation Safe Mediterranean (OMS) of the Navy, and which provides for the presence in Tripoli of a Task Units currently embarked on ship Pantelleria, with the mission of Capacity Building in favor of the Libyan Navy and Coast Guard, with the shared intent of combating illicit migrant trafficking by sea.