Maritime Safety Umbrella Operation

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Maritime SafetyUmbrella Operation
Co-operating to create, maintain and implement a
safer maritime environment
Richard Hill Maritime Safety Coordinator

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Background

• Definition, Activity, Hazards and Accidents

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Maritime Safety A Definition
Activities that seek to save human life, ensure
the safety of ships and cargo, protect the marine
environment and safeguard the maritime economic
and social assets communities depend upon
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Maritime Activity

• Maritime Transport
• Fishing
• Marine farming
• Recreation
• Continental shelf operations
• Science and survey

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Maritime Hazards and Accidents

• Hazards
• Dangerous cargo
• Environment and weather
• Substandard ships, crews and owners
• Other maritime users

• Accident Types
• Fire, Explosion Poisoning
• Structural failure
• Grounding
• Collision and Contact
• Flooding
• Machinery failure

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Maritime Safety Interreg

• is important, as proven by recent
  accidents(e.g. Prestige, Erika)

• is highly transnational with need for
  co-ordination
• is a topic high on the international agenda
• National level (Statutory Agencies)
• European level (Parliament, Commission, EMSA and
  lobby)
• International (IMO, OSPAR, HELCOM, etc.)

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Maritime Safety Stakeholders

• Traditionally players in Maritime Safety issues
  have been
• Shipbuilders
• Shipowners
• Cargo owners
• Insurer
• Ship management companies
• Flag state
• Classification society
• Port state

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Maritime Safety the Regions

• Regional governments are involved
• Maritime regions bear consequences of accidents
  and sea pollution
• Maritime Regions respond to the impacts and
  protect their communities
• Maritime regions have valuable experience to
  share
• Regions on their own are small and have difficult
  links to international organisations

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Maritime Safety Umbrella

• Objectives Structure

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Umbrella Objectives
Project Development Seminar on Maritime
Safety Sola Strand, Stravanger 19th-20th April
2004
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Umbrella Objectives

• Short term objectives are to
• establish coherence among projects in different
  programme areas
• facilitate and coordinate common activities of
  individual projects
• liaise with relevant organisations
• disseminate common outputs
• help project development in the future by
  identifying gaps and needs
• A longer term objective of an umbrella operation
  is to
• bring forward experiences in cross programme
  cooperation that can give directions
• encourage cross programme cooperation in the next
  Interreg programme period

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Umbrella Structure
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Topics Outcomes

• Concept, Communication
• Capacity Building

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Umbrella Topics
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Umbrella Outcomes

• Communication of Information
• - between projects
• - national, European and international level
• Project to Project Cooperation
• - Prevention
• - Preparedness and Response
• - Integration

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Communication of Information

• Communications Strategy
• Establish Identity
• Gateway Website
• Brochure
• Newsletter
• Conferences and Seminars
• Maritime Safety Guide
• Maritime Safety Project Assistance Team

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Project to Project Cooperation

• PPC1 Prevention Methods that can be used by an
  organisation to manage risk and limit the
  potential for an incident
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• PPC2 Preparedness and Response The planning and
  organisation to respond to a maritime incident,
  and the expertise and techniques available to
  deal with an incident if it occurs, and
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• PPC3 Integration How knowledge and experience
  from Integrated Coastal Zone Management, Sea Area
  or Ocean Spatial Planning can aid Maritime Safety
  Projects and inform stakeholder groups.

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Benefits Future Activity
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Benefits

• Maritime Safety Capacity Building
• Identification of similar maritime issues
• Development of joint working and problem solving
• Integration of maritime safety with spatial
  planning of coastal and marine areas
• Close information gaps in individual projects
• Provision of Maritime Safety professional
  contacts
• Development of future funding opportunities
• A single voice to speak at the European and
  International level
• Guide future funding programmes

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Future Activity

• Regional Cooperation Event (26/27 April 05)
• Finalise Cooperation Proposals (24 May 05)
• Implement Communications Strategy (Now)
• Implement Project to Project Cooperation (May 05
  December 06)
• Advise future Programmes

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Antwerpen Seminar Workshops

• Goal, Objectives, Decisions, Measures and
  Activities

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Seminar Workshop Goal

• Develop an operation proposal consisting of a
  number of Project to Project Cooperation topics
  to be undertaken jointly by the Maritime Safety
  Umbrella Operation and Interreg III Projects. The
  Seminar and Workshop will achieve this by

• Identifying Maritime Safety Topics to be part of
  the Umbrella Operation (Day 1)
• Determine potential options to deal with the
  Maritime Safety Topics (Day 1/2), and
• Decide the priority for each option (Day 2).

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Workshop Objectives

• Provide project managers with opportunity to
  review projects undertaking maritime safety
  topics
• Identify areas of work for co-operation between
  projects to share information and close gaps in
  knowledge concerning maritime safety
• Determine potential for new project development
  in maritime safety for future funding programmes
  (2007 to 2013), and
• 4. Provide an opportunity for stakeholders to
  observe the work of the Interreg III projects
  concerning maritime safety.

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Workshop Decisions

• 1. What maritime safety topics are covered by the
  existing Interreg III Projects
• 2. Which Project covers which topics
• 3. The areas where projects can work together to
  avoid duplication
• 4. What information gaps or new topics are not
  being covered by the existing projects, and
• 5. Measures or activities for projects to work
  together to avoid duplication, close information
  gaps and address new maritime safety topics.
• 6. Which organisation could champion the measure
  or activity together with the Maritime Safety
  Coordinator

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Possible Measures Activities

• Coordination visits and meetings between
  projects.
• Exchange programme of project staff.
• Cross Programme seminars and conferences to
  present findings and results.
• Technical studies on particular maritime safety
  topics.
• Project development and guidance for future
  programmes.
• Others? E.g. Facilitate involvement of other
  maritime stakeholders

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Project to Project Co-operation Proposal
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Proposals
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Proposals
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Proposals
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Proposals
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Proposals
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Worldwide
Numbers of Spills over 700 tonnes
Source ITOPF
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Europe
10 Year Average
1970-79 1.6 spills per year On average
1970-79 1.3 spills per year On average
1980-89 1.1 spills per year On average
2000-2004 0.5 spills per year On average
Numbers of Spills over 700 tonnes
Sources ITOPF, IOPC Fund, CEDRE, Interreg
Projects
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Worldwide
Incidence of Spills gt700 Tonnes by cause,1974-2004
Source ITOPF
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Europe
Incidence of Spills gt700 Tonnes by Cause 1970-
2004
Sources ITOPF, IOPC Fund, CEDRE, Interreg
Projects
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Major Oil Spills Since 1967
Source ITOPF
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