SAFE TRANSPORTATION AT SEA

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• SAFE TRANSPORTATION AT SEA
• A Baltic Sea perspective
• Requirements on vessels

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CONTENT 1st priority

• VESSELS OFFICERS AND CREW
• Manning
• Training
• Work and Rest hours
• Operating systems

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Content -2nd priority

• NAVIGATION AND OPERATION
• - Bridge equipment standards
• Safety equipments
• Emergency procedures
• Emergency equipment

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Vessels out there every day
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Background to Manning

• All vessels are required to have a so called SAFE
  MANNING CERTIFICATE.
• The requirements when this SAFE MANNING is
  established depends totally of the tonnage of the
  vessel, the size of the engine and where the
  vessel will be trading.
• What considerations should then the flag state
  issuing the certificate have ?

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Work and Rest Hours - FATIGUE

• Harmonization through ILO Conv. 140
• No limitation on how long periods allowed to work
  at sea without relief
• Work weeks of 98 hours allowed for up to six
  months in a row,
• Even with the Swedish legislation, which is
  supposed to be tough.
• Minimum rest of 6 hours a day required
• Numerous exceptions

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Need for Harmonized training

• Certification of Seafarers is another problem.
• False certificates
• Differing requirements, leading to the same
  certificate.
• Up to individual companies to set any
  additional requirements not mandatory under the
  conventions, such as BRM, MRM , Oil spill
  recovery, emergency handling of vessels etc.

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The challenge withIntroduction of new
trainingRequirements

• Up to the flag state authorities to interpret the
  IMO conventions and the so called Model Courses
• Just an example, taken from what we accept within
  the EU
• New training ideas must be accepted and
  authorized by these same authorities that already
  has accepted another certain training course

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Possibilities

• - EMSA
• New Maritime policy from the EU
• Look at what other countries around the world
  have been doing.
• PSSA

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What we want to see and perhaps also expect
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Operating Systems

• Co - Pilot Systems
• Safe manning of bridges and control rooms, with
  competent and rested staff
• Pilots ?
• Environemental pilots ?
• Language requirements
• Under keel clearance
• VTS centers

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Bridge equipment standards

• Radars
• A I S
• E C D I S
• I B S
• Communication equipment
• Steering and propulsion

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Safety Equipments Standards

• I will not bore you with details of this but also
  here there is a definite need for raising the
  standard requirements

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If things go wrong ?
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Emergency Equipment

• Emergency Lightering equipment
• Oil spill containment equipment
• Emergency towing equipment
• Training in the use of the above
• Fire fighting capacities

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Emergency Procedures

• Mandatory excersises with shore organisations ,
  own and external
• CRISIS MANAGEMENT TRAINING, for all involved
• Special Baltic Sea Response Plans-
• onboard all vessels and also with the proper
  authorities ashore

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Challenges

• How could we possibly get the 9 countries
  surrounding the Baltic Sea to
• work together on these issues?
• Could this be an issue for the EU ?
• Is it at all possible to get our large eastern
  neighbour to agree to any matters of this nature?
• Do we want to get a REAL protection of the
  Baltic Sea ?

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Possible developments

• Extended manning requirements
• Mandatory rest periods before taking charge of
  any operation whatsoever
• Double manning on the bridge mandatory co
  pilot systems
• Extended and specified equipment requirements
  both for navigation and for safety.
• Extended training requirements

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Training Requirements

• Should we not try to achieve a requirement for
  higher standards then the minimum STCW in respect
  of training of officers operating vessels
  transporting dangerous goods in our sensitive
  Baltic sea ?

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Training Requirements

• First of all I believe we need to strengthen the
  safety of navigation and operation of the
  vessels.
• Mandatory Manouvering courses, including all
  types of emergency manouvering and manuvering
  under tow and of course also mandatory training
  in ice navigation
• Mandatory BRM and/or MRM courses, clearly
  directed towards enhancing the teamwork onboard
• - Courses in better understanding and use of
  existing equipments, such as ECDIS, AIS, IBS

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Further Training Requirements

• Secondly there is a clear lack of training in
  emergency procedures and the use of emergency
  equipments
• Emergency towing
• Emergency Lightering
• Emergency oil spill recovery
• Emergency communications
• General emergency procedures
• Crisis Management , just to name a few

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• Thank you very much for your attention !