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EMSA and DG SANTE hold Workshop on Animal Welfare Inspections for Sea Livestock Vessels
Published24.01.2025
On 14 January, EMSA co-hosted with the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE), a technical workshop on Animal Welfare inspections on sea livestock vessels. Experts from Member State authorities participated in-person and remotely. The workshop was the opportunity for DG SANTE to share information on upcoming projects, digitalisation initiatives and ...
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Launch of the European Maritime Transport Environmental Report 2025
Published20.01.2025
On 4 February 2025, EMSA and the European Environment Agency (EEA) will jointly launch the second edition of the European Maritime Transport Environmental Report (EMTER) at a high-level conference streamed live from EMSA’s Lisbon headquarters. EMTER provides a completely up to date and comprehensive overview of the environmental impact of the maritime transport sector in the EU across a wide ...
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Webinar: MaKCs monitoring and tracking tools
Published20.09.2024
The Maritime Knowledge Centre Services (MaKCs) - implemented through Moodle - is the EMSA Academy’s E-learning Platform / Learning Management System (LMS). MaKCs provides integrated support for six activities required in the delivery of the EMSA Academy’s learning services: creation, organization, delivery, communication, collaboration, and assessment. On 18 September, representatives of 15 ...
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EMSA’s RPAS activities across Europe
Published13.08.2024
EMSA is now active in nine separate operations across 10 Member States and from on board two European Fisheries Control Agency (EFCA) patrol vessels. These operations benefit over 20 national authorities with maritime responsibilities. In the Baltic Sea, since May, EMSA's RPAS service has been providing comprehensive maritime surveillance to the Estonian Navy, the Finnish Border Guard, and the ...
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Frontex, EMSA and EFCA open second annual European Coast Guard Event
Published17.04.2019
On 16 April, Frontex Executive Director Fabrice Leggeri opened the annual European Coast Guard Event in Świnoujście, Poland. This is the second such event jointly organised by Frontex, the European Fisheries Control Agency (EFCA) and the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA). The Annual Coast Guard Event provides a platform for national authorities, the EU agencies involved in the cooperation ...
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RPAS drones monitored ship emissions in Danish waters
Published12.04.2019
EMSA’s service of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) was used by the Danish authorities to monitor ship emissions around the area of the Great Belt where many large tankers transit on their way to and from the Baltic Sea. The RPAS will specifically measure the ships’ sulphur emissions to check compliance with EU rules governing the sulphur content of marine fuel. The RPAS is fitted with a ...
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EMSA contingency plan for emergencies activated in response to the Grande America accident
Published14.03.2019
Following the fire on board the Grande America which subsequently sank on 12 March in the Bay of Biscay, EMSA has been providing emergency assistance at the request of the French authorities. It was reported that the vessel, Grande America, a vehicle carrier with container capacity (IMO 9130937, 56 642 GT, built 1997, Italian flagged) had been carrying 15 000 tons of cargo (860 tons of which ...
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RPAS drone flights get underway in Spain to assist SASEMAR in its search and rescue and pollution monitoring operations
Published06.02.2019
EMSA’s service of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems is being used by the Spanish maritime safety agency SASEMAR in the southern province of Huelva for the purpose of identifying and monitoring oil spills as well as for additional assistance during search and rescue missions. SASEMAR is using this opportunity to see first-hand how RPAS can be of value to multipurpose maritime surveillance ...
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EMSA contracts additional RPAS for maritime surveillance, emissions monitoring and pollution response
Published28.11.2018
EMSA has recently secured four contracts for maritime surveillance services based on remotely piloted aircraft systems. These contracts will provide increased maritime surveillance capabilities to European agencies and member states within the context of their coast guard functions. While EMSA has already been providing RPAS services since 2017, these new contracts come in direct response ...
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EMSA pollution response measures mobilised following collision in the Mediterranean
Published10.10.2018EMSA is assisting French and Italian authorities as they engage in clean-up operations following a collision between Tunisian ro-ro vessel Ulysse and Cypriot general cargo ship CSL Virginia in the Mediterranean, some 28 km north of Corsica, on 7 October. EMSA’s oil spill response vessel Brezzamare arrived on site on the morning of 9 October and has joined the response operations to handle the ...
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