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Capt R Gabriele CMILT, FNIHead, Pollution and Incident Response
Ports & Yachting Directorate
Malta Transport Centre
Marsa MRS 1917
Tel: +356 22914420
Mob: +356 99494312
Fax: +356 22914429
Email: [email protected]
Transport Malta’s duties
and responsibilities
CALYPSO Project
Kick off meeting
Polo Universitario
Lungomare Dante Alighieri
Trapani
15-16 May 2011
Putting you in the picture:
MALTA• Population: 406,771
(July 2010 est.)
• Coastline: 196.8 km
• Area: 316 km sq
• Territorial Sea: 12nm
• Contiguous Zone: 24nm
• Excl. Fishing Zone: 25nm
• Industries: Tourism,electronics, ship building and repair, construction, food and beverages, pharmaceuticals, footwear, clothing, tobacco, aviation services, financial services, information technology services
The Authority
• Transport Malta is the Authority for Transport in Malta set up by the Authority for Transport in Malta Act and started functioning on 1st January 2010.
• All employees are civilian and not military
• Took over all duties of the previous Malta Maritime Authority, Civil Aviation Department and Malta Transport Authority
• 8 Directorates:
– Corporate Services Directorate
– Enforcement Directorate
– Ports and Yachting Directorate
– Merchant Shipping Directorate
– Land Transport Directorate
– Roads and Infrastructure Directorate
– Integrated Transport Strategy Directorate
– Civil Aviation Directorate
– Information and Communication Technology Directorate
The Authority (2)
Ports and Yachting Directorate (PYD):
Responsibilities:
• Preserving the good order in internal and territorial waters
• Vessel Traffic Services (VTS)
• Management of all vessel traffic in Maltese territorial waters
• Safety of navigation
• Overall control of port work and provision of port workers
• Prevention and control of pollution and emergency response
• Provision of pilotage
• Firefighting facilities
• Supplies and other ship requirements
• Regulating, controlling and promoting yachting centres
National Competent Authority
• Transport Malta (TM) is the National Competent Authority (NCA) for matters relating to pollution at sea and for other emergencies at sea, including the allocation of a Place of Refuge, but excludes SAR
• Responsible to ensure Malta’s compliance to IMO Conventions and applicable EU directives/regulations
• Overall command during an incident at sea
• To manage response units and equipment
National Competent Authority
(2)
• Support of:
– Civil Protection Department (CPD)
– Armed Forces of Malta (AFM)
– Malta Environment and Planning
Authority (MEPA)
– Police
– Private contractors
Pollution & Incident
Response Unit
The Pollution and Incident Response Unit is TM’s operational Unit within the Ports & Yachting Directorate.
Main functions and responsibilities:
• To take overall command during any incident at sea including salvage operations
• Emergency preparedness and response in ports and territorial waters
• Maintain and implement the National Marine Pollution Contingency Plan (NMPCP)
Pollution & Incident
Response Unit (2)
• Maintain and implement the plan on Places of Refuge in accordance with local and international legislative requirements
• Focal point in relation to pollution and incident response matters to IMO, REMPEC, EC & EMSA
• To monitor compliance with national legislation and implement the OPRC Convention
Contingency Plans
• All terminals and facilities have
approved emergency contingency
plans
• 6 oil terminals in Valletta and 5 in
Marsaxlokk
• 1 LPG terminal in Marsaxlokk
Response
• TM is responsible to ensure Malta’s
preparedness to respond to an incident
• Government and private entities own
various types of equipment
– Inshore/offshore booms
– Skimmers
– Salvage pumps
– Sorbents etc.
– Small vessels
– Firefighting/pollution response tug
Response (2)
• Apart from the local assets EMSA has 18
response vessels on standby under a
charter party
• Various types - tankers/bunker barges,
dredgers, supply vessels etc
• Equipped with booms, skimmers and
sweeping arms, oil separators, etc
• Are trading mainly in the area where based
and can be mobilised in 24 hours
EMSA response vessels in
the MediterraneanEMSA response vessels:
• 2 Central Med – Valletta (MT)
• 2 West Med – Algeciras (SP) & La Spezia (IT)
• 2 – East Med – Piraeus (GR)
• 1 – Black Sea – Constanza (RO)
(The two vessels based in Valletta and the one in La Spezia are Maltese owned and operated)
Exercises
• A national exercise once a year
• Attended by observers from EMSA and
REMPEC
• Use of local and EMSA chartered response
vessels.
• Coordinated from TM’s Emergency Control
Centre in Marsa which is equipped with a
full VTS workstation
• Deployment and operation of equipment
Exercises (2)
• Terminals conduct regular exercises
• TM participates as observer
• Meetings with stakeholders to discuss
any issues
The importance of Project
CALYPSO• In the Med tide is not any issue but
wind and currents are
• Real time information on wind and sea
state exist
• Real time information on currents is
lacking
• Important to have real time
information during an emergency
The importance of Project
CALYPSO (2)
• Real time information is required to be
able to compile predictions
• Needed to be able to plan SAR and
response operations
• Required to compile statistical
patterns of rate and direction of drift to
compile long term predictions
WP4.2 – Bi-lateral
co-operationTM would be leading this WP with the
following aims:
• Exchange of information between all those
involved in response operations
• To hold meetings between the Maltese and
Italian Authorities involved
• To promote expertise in the field
• To aid in planning for common co-
ordination of operational activities
WP4.2 – Bi-lateral
co-operation (2)• Sharing of knowledge, facilities, equipment
and support in the use of data
• To establish protocols for daily and emergency operations
• Partners to agree to commit themselves to maintain the equipment
• To device national monitoring programmes in the two countries
• The integration of the project within operational activities
Proposed initial activities
• Initial meeting will be held with the Maltese entities responsible for SAR and operational response (week 21/22)
• If necessary further meeting/s with Italian Maritime Authorities
• Maritime Authorities to submit details on current set up and responsibilities of their related maritime activities
• Where necessary further bi-lateral meetings will be held
• Will be setting deadlines which will be communicated following the meeting with the Maltese partners
Conclusion
Such a project should be given all
support especially by those entities
and agencies which are directly
involved
I AM SURE THAT WITH THE
SUPPORT OF ALL WE WILL
DELIVER