North Pacific Shipping Safety

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North Pacific Shipping Safety

• Shipping Safety Partnership
• Alaska Oceans Program
• UA Marine Advisory Program

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Vessel Transits3,000 per year

• Dry bulk carriers
• Container vessels
• Oil and chemical tankers

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Resources at Risk
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M/V Selendang Ayu

• 400 A.M. December 7 Coast Guard is notified
  that M/V Selendang Ayu had lost engine power and
  is drifting towards Unalaska Island.
• 700 A.M. December 8 Tug Sydney Foss reports
  breaking a tow cable in an attempt to tow the
  freighter.
• 325 P.M. December 8 M/V Selendang Ayu has
  drifted into shallow wateroff Skan Bay and has
  dropped anchor whichappears to be holding.

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Selendang Ayu Adrift
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M/V Selendang Ayu

• 515 P.M. December 8 Anchor fails to hold and
  Coast Guard begins evacuation of crew.
• 623 P.M. December 8 Coast Guard rescue
  helicopter crashes with ten persons aboard. Four
  persons are rescued by a second helicopter and
  six persons are lost at sea.

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M/V Selendang Ayu

• 714 P.M. December 8 M/V Selendang Ayu breaks
  in two, pounded by heavy seas.

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Spill60,000 Tons of Soybeans330,000 Gallons of
Fuel
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Spill Response
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Wildlife Response
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Damage

• Seabirds Several Thousand Killed

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Beach Contamination
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Soybean Husks on Unalaska
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Shoreline Oiling
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Shipping Safety
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Shipping Risks

• Oil, Fuel, Hazardous Cargo Spills
• Loss of Human Life
• Invasive Species(rats, weeds, etc.)
• Vessel Noise

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SSP-Aleutians Oil Spill Mapwww.pacificenvironment
.org/downloads/akmnwr_spills.pdf
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Drybulk fleet development Number of ships
Drybulk fleet development Million dwt
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Industry Quotes

• The industry maintains zero tolerance towards
  accidents
• Progress has been made but more needs to be done
• All Stakeholders must work together in a fair
  process to achieve safety and environmental
  protection

INTERCARGO
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Industry Quotes

• Shipping continues to operate in a paradigm
  established in the beginning of the industrial
  age
• Cost pressures and inconsistent enforcement of
  standards give rise to substandard ships.  Some
  owners resort to manipulating rules, as they
  findit cheaper to pay the penalties for
  non-compliance than to operate within
  prescribed standards

INTERCARGO
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Shipping Safety Partnership (SSP) Goal

• To improve shipping safety along primary North
  Pacific cargo shipping routes, in particular
  along the "Great Circle Route" through the
  Aleutian Islands / southern Bering Sea. The
  group's primary focus is to reduce the risk of
  groundings / collisions / spills from the several
  thousand merchant vessels each year that trade
  between ports on the west coast of North America
  and Asia, transiting waters off Alaska.

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SSP Members

• Alaska Center for the Environment
• Alaska Community Action on Toxics
• Alaska Forum for Environmental Responsibility
• Alaska Marine Conservation Council
• Alaska Oceans Program
• Alaska Wildlife Alliance
• Aleut Corporation
• Aleutian Pribilof Island Association
• Bering Sea Fisherman's Association
• Cook Inletkeeper
• International Bering Sea Forum
• Northwest Urban Indian Community
• Ocean Advocates
• The Mountaineers
• Greenpeace
• Pacific Environment
• People for Puget Sound
• Petroleum Environmental Network- China

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Solutions
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Risk Assessmentfor Aleutian Islands

• Identify risks
• Identify risk reduction measures

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Vessel Tracking System

• Real time monitoring of course, speed and
  position for all merchant vessels

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Rescue Tugs / Escort Tugs

• Close escort for vessel in restricted passages
• Strategically stationed rescue tugs with at least
  175 ton bollard pull capability

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Routing Agreements
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Routing Agreements

• Areas To Be Avoided (ATBAs)
• Particularly Sensitive Sea Areas (PSSAs)
• Traffic Separation Schemes (TSS)

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Emergency Tow Packages

• Emergency tow gear on all freighters to deploy
  for emergency rescues as now required on oil
  tankers

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Spill Response

• Prepositioned equipment booms, skimmers,
  dispersant, barges
• Training and drills

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Vessel Construction Standards

• Double hulls
• Redundant steering
• Redundant engines
• Double hull fuel tanks

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Funding for Prevention and Response
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Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund(OSLTF)

• 5 cents per barrel oil import fee for OSLTF-
  reinstated
• Establish cargo account in the Fund
• Raise Fund cap from 1 billion to 2.7 billion
• Streamline OSLTF availability for prevention and
  response
• Raise OPA 90 (Oil Pollution Act of 1990)
  liability limits- 4 times present limits

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Future

• Engage
• US Administration and Congress
• States
• International Maritime Organization (IMO)
• Industry
• Ship Owners
• Associations
• Tug Companies
• Insurers
• Classification Societies
• Public
• Citizens Oversight- A North Pacific SSP as a
  standing body

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Shipping Safety Partnership

• Provide oversight of shipping in all northern
  waters including
• Aleutian Island / Bering Sea
• Northern Sea Route
• Northwest Passage
• North Atlantic
• Europe
• Asia

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Thank You
www.alaskaoceans.net907-929-9375info_at_alaskaocean
s.net
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Photo Credits

• Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge
• US Coast Guard
• Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation
• Intercargo
• Alyeska Pipeline Service Company
• Anchorage Daily News
• Craig Matkin
• Internacional Ecologistas en Accion