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Seatrade med

• Security Session
• Laurent MONSAINGEON
• French Riviera Ports - MEDCRUISE

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• From before 9/11 to ISPS
• Our MED  specifics 
• ISPS applied to cruise
• Yachting and ferries
• Looking forward

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From before 9/11 to ISPS code implementation

• The MED Achille Lauro
• Resiliency of the market
• 1999 MEDCRUISE addresses the EC no answer
• until 9/11!
• A complete benchmark is made (best practices,
  first evaluation)
• ISPS is setup ? EC 725/2004 directive
• Medcruise is a recognized partner of EC/DGTREN
  (MM.Trestour, Dupont, Crawford)

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New Medcruise constitution

• MEDCRUISE and all its members are dedicated to
  fully deploy PORT SECURITY (ISPS EC)
• Art.2 Objectives()2.3 To promote the
  development of port facilities security plans and
  the improvement of the level of security for
  ports and to participate in alerting mechanism
  for the rapid dissemination of security
  information critical to ships and/or ports.

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Our maritime specifics geography, culture and
tourism

• West to East - North to South a great variety
  of countries, religions, traditions three
  continents meet the cradle of modern
  civilization
• Closed sea, between Gibraltar Suez
• ALL MED countries have been, before 9/11,
  experiencing some sort of terrorism (from ETA to
  Hamas, through a diversity of national liberation
  movements)
• Through history, diversity and sunshine SEA
  TOURISM CULTURE (MED) CRUISE

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ISPS applied to cruise

• ISPS, a mixture of problems
• The cargo seen as a threat (container-MDW) or as
  a target (passenger)?
• The ship seen as a vector (cargo-ship) or as a
  sanctuary (cruise ship)
• The port facility as a well-defined (?)
  industrial area within a port
• For some transit calls, there is no need for a
  port
• Is the  Savona-Nice  leg within a cruise an
   international voyage ?

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ISPS applied to cruise

• Cruise can be endangered
• Fast, by a terrorist attack on a ship/passenger
• Slowly by turning destinations into fortresses
• Cruise must not spoil its own goal attention to
  pressure / congestion / paranoia is needed
• Cruise companies include security evaluation
  within the itinerary planning (travel advisories)

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ISPS applied to cruise

• Security measures must be deployed at the
  appropriate level
• turnaround ports/airports (ex Barcelona)
• downtown  passengers-only  ports (ex Cannes)
• beach resorts coastal villages (ex Santorino,
  Portofino)
• The level depends on threat evaluation, but
  also on configuration (ship-port, or ship-city or
  ship-beach interface)
• What do cruise companies expect a bureaucratic
  compliancy , a certificate against insurance
  companies, a value-added service, a minimized
  port fee?

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ISPS applied to cruise

• Some beaching / anchorage areas are under the
  protection of a countrys overall
  security umbrella they should be declared
  ISPS compliant by definition
• In such cases, can the ship be its own port
  for security
• The example of Egyptian  tourism police 

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Regulation (EC) No 725/2004 of the European
Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004

• (10) Permanently applying all the security rules
  provided for in this Regulation to port
  facilities situated in ports which only
  occasionally serve international shipping might
  be disproportionate. The Member States should
  determine, on the basis of the security
  assessments which they are to conduct, which
  ports are concerned and which alternative
  measures provide an adequate level of protection.

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Yachts and ferries

• ISPS EC 725/2004 also apply to yachts over
  500GRT.
• Once the yacht and its party are cleared as a
  no-threat ship, the passengers security is up
  to the captain/owner it becomes a on request
  port service.
• EC extension of ISPS to national ferry lines a
  nightmare? (100 car control?)
• Addressing the threat the vulnerability of
  ships vs. aircrafts or trains
• Why control the cars in the port facility, and
  not on the highways?

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Looking forward

• Remain pragmatic
• Share best practices among same configuration
  ports
• Discuss with cruise lines/ships security managers
• Discuss the security level with national
  authoritiesor European?
• Watch for fair competition
• security costs
• security level
• confusion between regulator and operator roles
• Think about a secondary legislation?