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Press Release: Interagency agreement to enhance situational awareness at Europe’s maritime border
Source : EMSA / Frontex Published 17.05.2013EMSA's integrated maritime services will be used by Frontex to reinforce control at the Schengen external border. A three-year service level agreement was signed between the two agencies on 3 May...
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EMSA welcomes appointment of new Executive Director
Source EMSA Published 08.06.2012Mr Markku Mylly of Finland has been appointed as the new Executive Director of the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA). The vote was held during the 33rd session of the Administrative Board on 8 J...
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EMSA vessel to assist with bunker oil removal from Costa Concordia
Source EMSA Published 23.01.2012The EMSA-contracted Stand by Oil Spill Response Vessel Salina Bay arrived this weekend on site of the Costa Concordia to assist SMIT Salvage, who is in charge of the bunker removal and pollution respo...
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Press Release: EMSA takes over the LRIT-IDE, ensuring ship position information flows between data centres worldwide as part of the LRIT system
Published 17.10.2011(Lisbon, 18 October 2011) 4 times per day, 7 days per week, merchant ships around the world broadcast information about their position to satellites via a system called Long Range Identification and...
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EMSA Subscriptions Service
Source EMSA Published 16.06.2011'EMSA Subscriptions' is a new service of the European Maritime Safety Agency website. It allows our visitors to subscribe and be notified via email each time new specific content is publishe...
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Facilitating Short Sea Shipping: customs authorities informed of ships movements by Blue Belt pilot project
Source EMSA Published 06.05.2011Can a customs authority be certain that a ship declaring intra-EU goods has only visited EU ports? This is now possible for the 250 vessels voluntarily participating in the Blue Belt pilot project. ...
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Press Release: EMSA strengthens its network of oil spill recovery vessels in the Eastern Mediterranean
Published 19.11.2010The European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) has signed a contract to provide pollution response capacity using the Limassol, Cyprus-based tanker Alexandria. The newly-contracted vessel considerably str...
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A New Inspection Regime for PSC in all Paris MoU countries
Published 17.11.2010Media Fact Sheet 02/2010. As part of its communication programme for 2010, EMSA has prepared this information article about the New Inspection Regime for port State control in the Paris MoU region. Pu...
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Press Release: Three EU agencies sign a cooperation agreement in Maritime Surveillance
Published 20.05.2010Today, in the context of the EU Maritime Day event in Gijón, Spain, the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) launches its Maritime Accident Review 2009. The review, which looks at shipping in and ar...
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Press Release: EMSA Launches New, Map-based Shipping Surveillance System
Published 10.03.2010From 10th March, EU Member States will have access to a new, userfriendly web service for tracking shipping in European waters. For the first time, EMSA's new SafeSeaNet tracking module — called ...
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Press Release: Preventing black tides in the Black Sea
Published 10.03.2010Lisbon, 10 March 2010. How can Europe protect the coasts of Black Sea from oil spills, in the face of rising oil exports from the Caspian Sea region? Today, the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) ...
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Press Release: 19.5% fewer ship accidents in EU during 2009 yet trend may be reversing, says EMSA
Published 04.01.2010Today, in the context of the EU Maritime Day event in Gijón, Spain, the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) launches its Maritime Accident Review 2009. The review, which looks at shipping in and ar...
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