Trading was tentative Wednesday morning as the market place digested news out of the Indian Ocean region, where a major earthquake occurred near Indonesia overnight.
The Indian Ocean Regional Tsunami Service Providers of Australia, India and Indonesia are monitoring the event and issuing tsunami advisories to the National Tsunami Warning Centres of the Indian Ocean region.
In the Indian Ocean region, due to the challenges that we have with the Horn of Africa and Somalia, the Somali pirates have driven merchant traffic hundreds of miles into the Indian Ocean.
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We engage with the Indian armed forces across all the services, and we contribute to issues such as piracy in the Gulf of Aden and elsewhere in the Indian Ocean region, and broader maritime security throughout the region.
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Shipping companies must ensure that their ships rigorously apply the IMO guidance and industry-developed Best Management Practices in their entirety, so that, when venturing into the western Indian Ocean region, they comply with all the recommended measures: no ship is invulnerable, in particular those with relatively low freeboards and slow steaming speeds.
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And the Western Indian Ocean is a region which has warmed up steadily with global warming.
ASEAN's founders dreamed that their organization would one day span the whole region, from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific, from the Red River delta to the rice padis of Java.
This study showed that the Western Equatorial region of the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean was as warm, if not warmer, since the end of the last major ice age, approximately 12, 000 years ago.
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Since the mid 1960s, UNESCO has had the responsibility of coordinating the Tsunami Early Warning System in the Pacific and following the devastating Sumatra earthquake in 2004, which resulted in widespread death and destruction across the region, UNESCO has been responsible for the Indian Ocean system as well.
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Thai islands in the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Thailand are home to some of the region's most spectacular beauty spots.
This meeting will bring together international experts working on the elaboration of the conceptual guide for the managers of itineraries of memory, specialists of training, operators of the tourism of memory and representatives of NGOs working on the valorization of this memory, from various region of the world (Africa, Americas, Caribbean, Indian Ocean, Europe).
The Army and the Air Force both have pre-positioned equipment in the Indian Ocean at Diego Garcia, ready to respond to a crisis in the Persian Gulf region.
Important Research Institutes of the Euro-Mediterranean region will participate to the meeting together with UNESCO-IOC which, in response to the tragic Indian Ocean tsunami on 26 December 2004, was mandated of coordinating the establishment of the Mediterranean Tsunami Early Warning System.
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