Creating synergies

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Creating synergies Traffic monitoring Directive
Safety at Sea project Antwerp 26 April
2005 Presented by Lazaros Aichmalotidis
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• 1. EMSA presentation
• 2. Traffic Monitoring Directive
• 3. Current situation at North Sea
• 4. Safety At Sea project / Perspectives

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• Overview 1
• The European Maritime Safety Agency was
  established by Regulation (EC) 1406/2002 of the
  European Parliament and of the Council of 27th
  June 2002.
• Its main goal is to play a leading role in
  reducing the risk of
• maritime accidents
• pollution from ships
• loss of human life at sea
• security problems on board ships

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• Overview 2
• Within the fields of maritime safety,
  pollution prevention from ships and ship
  security, EMSA has the following main operational
  objectives
• To monitor the implementation of EU maritime
  legislation
• To foster technical cooperation and development
  and disseminate best practice
• To provide technical advice
• To provide cross border operational
  capabilities, in particular in the field of oil
  pollution response

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• EMSA Tasks
• The Agency has a variety of different tasks in
  the following areas
• Classification Society Assessment
• Port State Control Monitoring
• Ship Reporting
• Marine Equipment
• Accident Investigation
• Port Reception Facilities
• Ship Safety Standards
• Training
• Accident response and support to the common
  maritime safety policy
• Ship Owners Liability
• Oil Pollution Response
• Ship Security

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• Ship Reporting (Directive 2002/59)
• Management of the EU electronic monitoring
  network for ship and cargo movements (SafeSeaNet)
• Coordination of actions relating to VTS and AIS
• Support to the Commission in the further
  development of the EU maritime transport
  management and information system
• Ensuring incorporation of long distance
  automatic identification system developments in
  the EU ship reporting and monitoring system

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• 1. EMSA presentation
• 2. Traffic Monitoring Directive
• 3. Current situation at North Sea
• 4. Safety At Sea project / Perspectives

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• Traffic Monitoring Directive (2002/59/EC)
• Following the accident of the cargo ERIKA off the
  French coast in 1999, the European Union has
  adopted several directives for improving the
  prevention of accidents at sea and the fight
  against marine pollution.
• Especially as follow-up of the PRESTIGE accident,
  there was a large political pressure in Europe
  that could be summarised into one simple question
  
• How is it possible that we do not know what is
  sailing in front of our coastline

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• Directive 2002/59/EC

• Directive 2002/59/EC aims at establishing in the
  Community a vessel traffic monitoring and
  information system with a view to enhancing the
  safety and efficiency of maritime traffic,
  improving the response of authorities to
  incidents, accidents or potentially dangerous
  situations at sea, including search and rescue
  operations, and contributing to a better
  prevention and detection of pollution by ship.

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• Article 6 of Directive 2002/59
• Use of automatic identification systems
• 1. Any ship calling at a port of a Member State
  must, in accordance with the timetable set out in
  Annex II(I), be fitted with an AIS which meets
  the performance standards drawn up by the IMO.
• 2. Ships fitted with an AIS, shall maintain it in
  operation at all times except where international
  agreements, rules or standards provide for the
  protection of navigational information.

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• Article 9 of Directive 2002/59
• Infrastructure for ship reporting systems, ships'
  routing systems and
• vessel traffic services
• 1. Member States shall take all necessary and
  appropriate measures to provide themselves
  gradually, on a time-schedule compatible with the
  timetable set out in Annex II(I), with
  appropriate equipment and shore-based
  installations for receiving and utilising the AIS
  information taking into account a necessary range
  for transmission of the reports.
• 2. The process of building up all necessary
  equipment and shore-based installations for
  implementing this Directive shall be completed by
  the end of 2007. Member States shall ensure that
  the appropriate equipment for relaying the
  information to, and exchanging it between, the
  national systems of Member States shall be
  operational at the latest one year thereafter.

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• AIS objectives
• The AIS on board can send and receive ship
  information (such as ship identification, ship
  characteristics, position, speed heading etc.)
  between other ships and shore-based AIS stations.
  
• The overall purpose of AIS is to identify
  vessels, assist in target tracking, provide
  information to assist in collision avoidance and
  to compile the traffic image of the area.

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• Traffic Monitoring Directive (2002/59/EC)
  
• Other elements
• ?VDR
• ? Bad weather
• ? Places of refuges
• ? Incident management
• ? Checks and sanctions

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Preample (17) of the Directive 2002/59 Informatio
n management centres ought to be set up in the
Communitys maritime regions so as to facilitate
the exchange or sharing of useful data in
relation to traffic monitoring and the
implementation of this Directive. The M.S. and
the Commission should also endeavour to cooperate
with third countries to achieve these objectives.
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Article 5 of the EMSA regulation 1406/2002 At
the request of the Commission, the Administrative
Board may decide, with the agreement of the
Member States concerned, to establish the
regional centres necessary in order to carry out
tasks related to the monitoring of navigation and
maritime traffic, as provided for in Directive
2002/59/C.
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Regional traffic monitoring centres (Workshop 27
28 Jan. 2005) The workshop supported the
concept of developing the regional traffic
monitoring centres in virtual mode (national
centres sharing the same traffic image without
creating a physical central centre. Some of the
benefits of the concept are (a) The full real
traffic image of all vessels fitted with AIS and
sailing in the selected area would be
relayed between the coastal stations in real time
mode. (b) The Member States of the region
will be able to elaborate on statistics on
traffic entering and leaving a specific area and
to identify general navigation patterns.
This would enable proper risk assessment in
specific areas, and help to improve the
decision making process regarding
recommended safety of navigation measures. The
development of a physical centre needs to be
further studied in regard to technical, financial
and administrative implications,
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• 1. EMSA presentation
• 2. Traffic Monitoring Directive
• 3. Current situation at North Sea
• 4. Safety At Sea project / Perspectives

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SAFETY AT SEA Interreg IIIB
North Sea Programme
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Operational VTS Scheldemond (joint VTS
Dutch/Flemish authorities along the Scheldt
river and its approaches) The network
architecture allows LCA of Ostende, Zeebrugge,
Gent and Antwerpen as well as the Ostend MRCC
to have access to the traffic data Operational
24H Services ISNASTOSAS Personnel IALA
V-103 standard trained Planed AIS network to
cover the whole coast (development started
1-1-05 system in service by 1-9-05)
Zeebrugge LCA
VTS Scheldemond
Antwerp LCA
Gent LCA
Ostende LCA
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Operational 6 TSS adopted by IMO, 7 VTSs
(all VTSs are connected to Harbour Masters
Systems) Operational 24H Services
ISNASTOSAS Personnel IALA V-103
standard trained Operational AIS
network covering the whole coast (by 28th July
04)
Eems VTS
Terschelling VTS
Den Helder VTS
IJmuiden VTS
Scheveningen VTS
Rotterdam VTS
Scheldemond VTS
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Operational 7TSS adopted by IMO, 13 VTSs
(all VTSs are connected to adjacent
ones) Central Command for Maritime Emergencies
(CCME) in Cuxhaven is connected with VTSs (if
needed) Operational 24H Services
ISNASTOSAS Personnel IALA V-103
standard trained Operational AIS
network covering the whole coast (by the end of
07)
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Operational 5 TSS adopted by IMO, 1 VTS
Great Belt Operational 24H Services
ISNASTOSAS Personnel IALA V-103
standard trained Operational AIS network
with 5 AIS B.S. Planned 13 AIS B.S. (by the
end of 2005) HELCOM North Sea project
VTS Great Belt
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Operational 1 TSS adopted by IMO,
Operational 4 VTS /24H Services
ISNASTOSAS Personnel IALA V-103
standard trained Operational AIS network
with 35 AIS B.S. covering the whole
Norwegian coast HELCOM North Sea project On
going talks with Russia (Barents sea region)
Fedje VTS
Horten VTS
Kvistoy VTS
Brevik VTS
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Operational 7 TSS adopted by IMO, 17 VTSs
(U.K. ports are privatised still comply with
IMO and IALA requirements) Operational
24H Services Various Personnel IALA V-103
standard trained Planed AIS network to cover
the whole coast (by March 2006)
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HELCOM Copenhagen Declaration Objective To
establish a common Baltic Sea monitoring system
for maritime traffic based on national AIS data
by 1 July 2005. Two basic components were
needed here fore, viz. a. the establishment of
national networks in each Baltic Sea State
b. a decision on how to make access to these
national systems.
HELCOM server
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EUROPEAN MARITIME SAFETY AGENCY
Creating synergies

• 1. EMSA presentation
• 2. Traffic Monitoring Directive
• 3. Current situation at North Sea
• 4. Safety At Sea project / Perspectives

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• Project B AIS data and risk assessment
• Participating countries (DK, UK, SW and NO)
• Task 1 Gathering and presenting AIS data
• - AIS data
• - Case routing
• - AtoN Planning
• - AIS for navigational Warnings
  and
• Information to shipping
• - Marking wind farms and other
  offshore
• structures

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• Specific project objectives
• Gathering and presenting AIS data
• Gathering AIS data and organizing these into a
  database system
• Establishing a presentation system for AIS
  results
• Formulating and guiding a statistical treatment
  package identifying and organizing AtoN, Nav.
  Warn etc.

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• Considerations

Need to develop a system that collects data from
several countries AIS systems, generates
statistics from the received AIS data, and
distributes the data received to the real time
data subscribers. When a number of AIS systems
want to share data, it is optimal to have a
central system that receives and distributes
data to all the involved parties. Need to
define system's interface and functionalities.
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Paragraph 2 of Article 9 of Directive 2002/59 and
The process of building up all necessary
equipment and shore-based installations for
implementing this Directive shall be completed by
the end of 2007. Member States shall ensure that
the appropriate equipment for relaying the
information to, and exchanging it between, the
national systems of Member States shall be
operational at the latest one year
thereafter. Safety at Sea (Project B) objectives
are converging to the development of a
North Sea regional traffic monitoring centre
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• Suggestions / perspectives
• 1. The SS project is important for EMSA since is
  an initiative related to the Directives 2002/59
  requirements.
• 2. The SS project is based on the concept of the
  regional centers which is one of the EMSA
  tasks.
• 3. The SS project covers one of the 5 E.U. sea
  areas (the others are Baltic, Atlantic, Med W and
  Med E).
• 4. The SS project exploits E.U. funds for the
  development of transnational task at the North
  Sea area.
• 5. The SS project procedures and technical
  standards may be used as a model for the other
  E.U. sea areas.

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• Thank you very much
• for your attention