EMSA boosts its network of oil pollution response vessels in the Baltic and Channel

Source: EMSA

From 14 to 16 vessels: EMSA boosts its network of oil spill recovery vessels in the Baltic and the Channel

Lisbon, 17 November 2009, The European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) today awarded two new contracts for at-sea oil recovery services in the Baltic and the Channel/Atlantic areas. As a result, two additional vessels will be modified and equipped for oil spill recovery activities, bringing the total number of EMSA-contracted vessels available for oil pollution response around European waters to 16. For the Northern Baltic Sea, Finnish ship-owner Finstaship will provide pollution response capacity with the Kontio, an ice-breaker vessel that services the Gulf of Bothnia during the ice-breaking season, which will be based at Helsinki during the rest of the year. To provide better response capacity in the Channel and its Atlantic approaches, Belgian shipowner Aegean Bunkers at Sea will provide a bunker tanker, Sara, operating from Portland (UK). Both vessels are expected to enter into operational service during the second half of 2010.

Full press release, including photos of vessels here.

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