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These visits have intervened after series of meetings held from April in the sea institute of Bousmail, its have included frames of the transport ministry and the American bureau “N M I”, which have been followed by work meetings In order to see to which extend Algeria commits to security and safety measures relating to structures and trade operations. In the General Direction of Algiers’ port held in presence of the General Manager, Bouraoui Abdelhak, representatives of the Transport ministry, officers charged of security in ports of Algiers, Djen Djen and Skikda, the commissioner in charge of the borders’ area of Algiers’ port, Hadj Said Arezki, representatives of the police, Customs and coasts’ guard. Algerian American consultations were around the commitment to rules of surveillance and insurance and security measures relative to ports, which come under the frame of the called system “A S B S”. The publication of Algiers’ port “Port’s Echo” has revealed the commitment of Algerian responsibles to implement all clauses and measures relating to the insurance of trade operations and operations of surveillance of goods and merchandises, American responsibles have praised the recorded development in this field underlining the importance of information exchange between the two sides in addition to the other concerned sides. It should be noted that the new measures in the field of sea transport have become effective after the 9/11 attacks, and all member States of the World Organization of Shipping have been obliged to adopt strict security measures according to a scale of three degrees, the most dangerous is the third which needs extraordinary measures. S. Hafid — el-Khabar | ||||||||||||||||||
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