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Nordic Expert Meeting on regional

Maritime Monitoring Cooperation

SafeSeaNet and relevant monitoring

project

Haugesund 25-26 October 2011

Lazaros Aichmalotidis

Head of Unit C.2

Vessel traffic and reporting services

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What is SafeSeaNet?

SafeSeaNet is the community vessel traffic monitoring and information system, established by Directive 2002/59/EC.

It enables the EU Member States, plus Iceland and Norway, to exchange information on vessel traffic and cargo movements (notification and Request/Response mechanism)

Initiated in October 2004 and became fully operational in 2009

Operated by EMSA at Central level, by MSs at national level, Commission and MSs responsible for the policy related matters, role of the SSN HLSG and the SSN group

Around 17,000 ships per day tracked in European waters

Over 100 millions AIS positions per month recorded

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Objectives of SafeSeaNet

Improve prevention and response to incidents, accidents or potentially dangerous situations at sea (incl. search and rescue operations)

Contribute to improved prevention and detection of pollution by ships

Its mandate has been extended and include, broadly:

maritime safety

marine environment protection

port and maritime security

efficiency of maritime traffic and maritime transport

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Users of SSN

National Competent Authorities (NCA) in the MSs decide which national users can access the system

Users (Local competent Authorities: LCAs) include:

Maritime administrations

Ports

Vessel traffic monitoring centres

Maritime Rescue Coordination Centres (MRCC)

Coast Guards

Pollution survey centres

Other national users may be added under specific conditions

– Customs, border control, fisheries authorities, navies, etc.

currently more than 2000 users

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AIS shore stations connected to SSN

Baltic

Region North Sea Region

727+ AIS shore stations Coverage across all coastal Member States

Mediterranean Sea Region

North Atlantic Region

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SSN Graphical interface

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To identify a specific ship

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Hazmat details

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SSN Pilots projects

• SSN/VMS synergies

• Exchange of VTS/Radar data through

SSN • BlueBelt

• IMDatE (Integrated Maritime Data

Environment)

I. SafeSeaNet /VMS Pilot Project

• General objective

– maritime safety, security, counter-pollution

– fisheries management

• Specific objective of Phase A “preparatory phase”

Explore the available synergies between VMS and SSN

Define the operational concept of a pilot project

Draft technical specifications

• Phase A participants - 3 Member States (FR, ES, IT)

– Meetings - Paris (29/6/09), Lisbon (9/9/09), Vigo 4/12/09), Madrid (31/5/10)

Legal background

• Directive 2009/17/EC (new carriage requirement, requiring fishing vessels above 15 m - to be equipped by 2013/2014)

• Council regulation No.1224/2009 “establishing a Community control system for ensuring compliance with the rules of the Common Fisheries Policy” provides a sound legal basis. Article 10 states that “MSs may use AIS data when such data are available for the purpose of cross-checking with other available data …. For that purpose MSs shall ensure that AIS data for fishing vessels flying their flag are available to their national fisheries control authorities”.

• Framework of “integrated maritime policy”

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Benefits for exchanging VMS/SSN data

• AIS SSN messages more comprehensive than VMS

• High update rate (6 min)

• Free of charge (provided to the FMC via SSN without additional communication costs)

• The identity/position of a fishing vessel can be fully verified through two different „sensors‟

• A fishing vessel monitoring will be maintained even without VMS transmissions

• Benefits/ synergies should be further analyzed

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SSN

Operational concept

Phase B - Operational Testing Phase

• Phase A concluded - all significant issues of the preparatory phase have been resolved. Technical implementation completed in Oct 2011

• EMSA is offering the correlation mechanism software (proxy)

• 5th SafeSeaNet High-Level Steering Group (Brussels, 14 April 2011) Commission invited the MSs to express their interest in Phase B “operational pilot phase”

• For the MSs, their participation creates no technical impacts on their systems, nor any financial implications

• Italy, Spain, Malta, Poland (tbc) and Norway participate in the “VMS/SSN synergies” pilot project Phase B “operational pilot”

• Phase B kick off meeting (Rome 11 Oct 2011)

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Timetable

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II. Exchange of radar data pilot project

Purpose of the SSN/VTS pilot project : test the potential for exchange of radar-based, VTS-type information between MSs with the objective to serve:

maritime safety,

security,

counter-pollution,

border surveillance and

fisheries management

Operational concept

• Radar images will be exchanged between MSs via SSN (in request/response mode);

• The SSN architecture/philosophy will be used to exchange radar traffic images between various coastal areas;

• Internationally accepted standards should be used (as far as possible, for the protocols and the message contents, suitably adapted to SSN).

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Communication standards

• The IALA draft standard (called IVEF), which deals with point-to-point communications between VTSs. The IVEF standard used for radar exchange via SSN after certain modifications to the SSN Core and MS systems.

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• The IEC standard, deals with the exchange of AIS data. Italy has developed a software interface for providing radar data to SSN using the IEC format. Started tests with EMSA using the IEC solution on the 14th of September 2010.

• Benefit of the IVEF: can be used for the exchange of radar data between any VTSs. IEC works only within SSN .

• EMSA is ready to support other MSs willing to apply the IEC solution

Sample of Italy VTS/SSN tests

Follow up actions

• IEC solution: all significant issues of the preparatory phase have been resolved. There are technical impacts on MSs systems and financial implications. No impact at EMSA.

• EMSA is ready to support MSs the IEC solution.

• IVEF solution: at national level, the manufacturer-specific server software need to be installed in VTS centres. There are costs associated to the development of server software to provide/receive VTS/radar data in the IVEF format. Consultation with each of the manufacturers would be required for each VTS involved in the pilot project.

• IVEF solution not ripe enough (from the MSs side and EMSA). Further developments on hold (activated when MSs willing to invest).

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Internal

market

International

voyage

III. Blue Belt pilot project

Objective

General Stimulate Short Sea Shipping and contribute to facilitating vessels operating on intra-EU trading routes. Ships to be able to operate freely within the internal market with a minimum of administrative burden. Specific Provide custom authorities with vessel voyage information with an added degree of certainty regarding the ship whereabouts.

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EU Custom Authorities Represented for all matters related to the implementation of the pilot project. The customs offices in those ports where the participating vessels will call are involved in the project. Shipping Industry – participating vessels The ECSA participates with 251 vessels („Blue Ships‟), Aim The project automatically monitors the participating ships and informs the customs authorities, before arrival, of the actual voyages followed and the last ports visited.

Participation

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Delivers a notification report by e-mail to port customs authorities of the EU Member States for the participating vessels (251) Is divided into two phases: Phase 1 (2nd May – 30th June)

• Report is sent via email to custom authorities concerned in the port

of call, 2 hours before arrival. The report contains information about the vessel, its voyage and any status applicable (if any) under existing customs legislation

Phase 2 (1st July – 3rd November), in addition to the above

• Customs authorities receive information on ship behaviour (e.g. call

at third port, encounter at sea etc.) • Satellite-AIS will become available for additional ship tracking

information

Pilot Project

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E-mail dispatch of Blue Belt report

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E-mail report content

List of ship calls

Voyage summary Bremerhaven to Felixstowe

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Conclusions /follow up actions

• System currently configured to provide warnings for all ships in the ECSA list. System sends e mail to the defined customs authorities list.

• Terrestrial AIS will be complemented by Satellite-AIS in case of gaps in the coverage of SSN or when a vessel is out of the range of coastal AIS receiving stations

• Satellite-AIS can be used as back-up of terrestrial AIS. Data will become available to SSN

• Upon successful assessment of the pilot

project, due at the beginning of 2012,

existing procedures may be reviewed

and adjusted in favor of a permanent

blue belt reporting system.

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IV. IMDatE (Integrated Maritime Data Environment)

Main objectives:

To integrate existing maritime services (LRIT, SSN, CSN, THETIS) to fully exploit their cross-platform capabilities

To develop added-value services – on top of the integrated framework

Integrating Maritime Data

SafeSeaNet CleanSeaNet

THETIS LRIT DC

IMDatE

Combining data from different sources to provide a more complete maritime picture

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Conceptual view

SSN maritime information

reporting

LRIT DC

long range tracking

CSN DC

oil spill detection

THETIS

port state control

Enterprise Bus – Structured Data Exchange

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IMDatE Configurable User Services

Vessel behaviour analysis

Vessel tracks and positions

Common User Management & Single

Sign-On

Service 1 : Ship Profile

Service 2 : Area Centric

Service 3 : Maritime Surveillance

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Sat-AIS processing

Vessel validation

Data Fusion

Data Storage

Sys-to-sys interfaces

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Combining position

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Project Execution Timeline

18/11/2010 18/11/2013

2011 2012 2013

18/01/2012 - 18/11/2013

Maintenance

18/11/2010 - 18/01/2012

1 BOP V1

18/05/2011 - 18/03/2012

2 Satellite AIS

18/01/2012 - 18/11/2013

5 Enhancements

18/01/2012 - 18/11/2012

3 Added Value Services

18/03/2012 - 18/11/2012

4 Innovative Display