Building Security at a Megaport: ANTWERP

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Building Security at a Mega-port ANTWERP
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the port of Antwerp

• Facts and figures

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Current view of the port
Total surface 14,000 hectares River bank 120
kilometer Total quay length 130 km Total
railway length 960 km Total road length 400
km Sea going vessels 16.000 Total transhipment
2006 167.372.000 tons People daily in port
120 000
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Access via Netherlands

• 43 miles from the sea
• Dutch/Flemish coordination for each entry/exit

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• Port
• Major world port since 1600
• Grown organically with city
• Port facilities mingled with
• Dwellings
• Shops
• Cinemas
• Hotels, etc.
• Public roads
• Railway
• Canals

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Locks

• Berendrecht Lock
• Largest lock in the world
• length 500m
• width 68m

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Nuclear Power Plant
3,000 megawatt power plant
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Barge Traffic
99.900 barges
85 million tonnes
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Rail Traffic
960 km of railway track in port Europes leading
railway port 220 goods trains per day
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Truck Transport

• 280 km of road in the port area
• 60 of containers by road

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Container Terminals
80,8 million tonnes
7.018.000 TEU
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Petrochemicals
No. 1 in world for product range 2nd largest
complex in the world Total capacity 37.8 million
tonnes
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Pipelines

• 360 km of pipeline in urban area
• Natural gas,
• Crude oil,
• Hydrogen,
• Ethylene,
• Propylene
• Nitrogen
• Liquid hydrocarbons
• 6 tunnels under the river Scheldt

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Cruise Ship Terminal
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Safety and Contingency Planning

• Well developed organisation and procedures for
  safety emergencies and contingencies
• Regular drills and exercises

Fire Brigade
Police
Neighbour-hoods
Emergency Response Organisation
Port Authority
Environmental Dept
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Emergency Response

• 4 Phases

Phase 1 Fire Brigade
Phase 2 Mayor of Antwerp
Phase 3 Governor of Province of Antwerp
Phase 4 Minister of Internal Affairs
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Crime and Terrorism

• Important transit port for illegal cargos
• Large port facilities, security sensitive
  companies
• Transportation infrastructure
• Central location
• Hub of world diamond trade

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Organised Crime

• Global growth of international organised crime
• Increasing shipments of drugs from Asia and
  Middle East through Eastern Europe and FSU
• Growth of Albanian gangs human traffic, heroin
• Central America Cocaine
• Russian gangs Heroin
• Morocco Cannabis

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Crime and Terrorism

• Port of Antwerp Schengen border
• National Security Plan (04)
• Heightened vigilance towards
• Forged passports
• International arrest warrants

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Belgian Anti-terrorism structure

• Justice department
• Police force (local and federal)
• AGG (anti terrorist mixed group)
• Intelligence services
• DOVO (explosive experts)
• Customs
• OCAD Coördination for threat analysis

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The ISPS code

• An anwer to terror?

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Antwerp port security

• NAMB
• central national authority (ISPS)
• expert group
• Defence, Finance (Customs), Justice, Interior
  Affairs, Public Health
• LCMB
• Local Police, Federal Police, Customs, Sûreté de
  lEtat, Harbour Master.

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NAMB members (voting)

• Ministry of transport - Chairman
• Ministry of the interior - Crisis centre
• Ministry of finance - Customs
• Ministry of justice - State security
• Ministry of defence
• Ministry of foreign aff.
• Ministry of health

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NAMB members (non voting)

• Representatives of the several Belgian regions
  (Flanders, French community, Bruxelles)
• Chairman or representative of the LCMB (Antwerp,
  Ghent, Zeebrugge, Ostend, Bruxelles, Liège, Sea
  Canal )

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ISPS Port of Antwerp

• Port Security Officer Port Commander
• Deputy Security Officer

Port Facility Security Officers
PFSO Locks (APA)
PFSOs Terminals
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LCMB members tasks

• Harbour Master Chairman
• Chairman
• Audit and supervision of security at Port
  Facility
• Review of PFSP
• Maritime Police
• Audit acces control of Port Facilities and
  restricted areas

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LCMB members Tasks

• Local Police
• Audit communication and alarms at the Port
  Facilities
• Customs
• Audit cargo flow, luggage and ship shandler
  procedures.
• State Sureté
• Audit risk analysis of the Port Facility

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LCMB General Tasks

• Review the correctness of information from the
  P.F. and the Port security off.
• Review the PFSP and the port security plan, based
  on the risk analysis, and report to the NAMB
• Follow-up of information

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LCMB General tasks

• Report status of activities to the NAMB
• Keep a listing of facilities needing to comply
  with the regulations
• 2-Yearly audit of the P.F. and report af said
  audit to the NAMB
• Scheduled meetings at least 4 times yearly

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Customs
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Increased levels of cargo checking
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MEGA PORT INITIATIVE

• Every in- and Out gate of every container
  terminal as well as the main railway
  choke-points are equiped with a
• scanner for radio- active material

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Parallel Actions

• Container Security Initiative (CSI)
• C-TPAT
• The Bioterrorism Act 2002
• Export inspections for
• goods destined for the US
• Focus on WMD and
• Mega Port initiative

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Port Security, EG 2005/65

• Port security evaluation (risk analysis)?
• ready
  28/02/2007
• Port security plan ? ready 31/05/2007
• Access requirements
• Cooperation between services (dangerous goods
  admin., Customs, Police.)
• Procedures
• Subdivision of port in relevant areas
• Document/communication control (need to know)
• Integration in other plans
• Training and exercises
• Operational port security organisation.

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Port Security, EG 2005/65
Security levels 1) Minimum adequate
measures 2) Additional measures with increased
threat 3) Specific additional
measures with probable threat The
security level of the port or af a specific area
within the port is decided by the ADCC. (Algemene
Directie Crisiscentrum)
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Maritime security, EG 2005/65