EU Phare Twinning Project “Strengthening Enforcement of Maritime Safety”

This paper describes how in the year 2000, about 6 million passengers and around 35 million tons of cargo were handled by Estonian ports. Twenty million tons of the cargo was oil products, which can be defined as a dangerous cargo. It has been estimated that maritime traffic will increase two-fold in 2010-2015. In addition to vessels visiting Estonian ports, a large number of tankers visiting new Russian ports sail along the Estonian coastline. The risk of accidents is high because of the high concentration of traffic, the number of substandard vessels and the difficult conditions, especially in winter. Twenty seven casualties or incidents occurred in Estonian waters or involved vessels under the Estonian flag in 2000. These indicate the importance of making Flag State Control (FSC) and Port State Control (PSC) more efficient. The paper describes how the Estonian Maritime Administration (MA and the Estonian Maritime Academy (EMA) prepared and carried out the EU Phare Twinning Project “Strengthening Enforcement of Maritime Safety.” The duration of the project was 24 months and it included 9 sub-projects and an investment component that included the procurement of a VTS simulator. The objective of the project was to improve the skills of the personnel of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications, the Estonian Maritime Administration and the Estonia Maritime Academy. The main partners in the project were the Finnish Maritime Administration (FMA) and the Center for Maritime Studies (CMS) at the University of Turku. The junior partner of the project was the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) of the United Kingdom. In addition to experts from FMA, CMS and MCA, experts from Denmark, Germany and Sweden took part in the project.

Language

  • English

Media Info

  • Media Type: Print
  • Features: References;
  • Pagination: pp 97-105
  • Monograph Title: Maritime Security and MET

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Filing Info

  • Accession Number: 01020134
  • Record Type: Publication
  • ISBN: 1845640586
  • Files: TRIS
  • Created Date: Mar 15 2006 8:25AM