Press Releases
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20 June 2013: Open Day at EU Agencies
Published18.06.2013EU drugs and maritime agencies open their doors to the public on inauguration of Praça Europa. (18.6.2013, LISBON) The EU drugs agency (EMCDDA) and the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) will ope ...
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Press Release: Interagency agreement to enhance situational awareness at Europe’s maritime border
Published17.05.2013
EMSA'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 201 ...
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EMSA welcomes appointment of new Executive Director
Published08.06.2012
Mr 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
Published23.01.2012
The 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 resp ...
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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
Published17.10.2011
(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
Published16.06.2011
'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 published. This s ...
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Facilitating Short Sea Shipping: customs authorities informed of ships movements by Blue Belt pilot project
Published06.05.2011
Can 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. S ...
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Press Release: EMSA strengthens its network of oil spill recovery vessels in the Eastern Mediterranean
Published19.11.2010
The 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 st ...
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A New Inspection Regime for PSC in all Paris MoU countries
Published17.11.2010Media 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. P ...
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Press Release: Three EU agencies sign a cooperation agreement in Maritime Surveillance
Published20.05.2010
Today, 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 a ...
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