EMSA - European Maritime Safety Agency - EMSA - European Maritime Safety Agency

Press Release: Interagency agreement to enhance situational awareness at Europe’s maritime border

Fri, 17 May 2013 06:26:10 +0000

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...

Inventory of EU Member States Policies and Operational Response Capacities for HNS Marine Pollution 2013

Tue, 07 May 2013 07:22:37 +0000

In accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1891/2006 amending Regulation (EC) No 1406/2002, EMSA is given the task to "draw up on a regular basis a list of the private and state pollution response mec...

Equasis app goes live

Tue, 07 May 2013 06:20:03 +0000

Equasis has set up a comprehensive database of all sea-going merchant ships over 100GT (Gross Tonnage) and the companies that operate and own them. This database is now available to the public free of...

Newsletter May 2013

Mon, 06 May 2013 07:07:42 +0000

In this issue: IMDatE ocean proofing gets underway; pilot project takes SafeSeaNet furhter; MarED issues recommendations for harmonisation; multinational visit to MSS operations centre

Newsletter April 2013

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 13:29:56 +0000

In this issue: -EMSA Admin Board looks to the future; -Monitoring fishing in the North Atlantic; -LNG bunkering study now on website; -EMSA to raise its own energy efficiency.

Newsletter March 2013

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 11:15:25 +0000

In this issue: - Revised Founding Regulation now in force. - Anticipating the human impact of pollution. - IMDatE provides its first services. - Vice-Admiral Carvalho Abreu visits EMSA.

Integrated Maritime Service Brochure

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 08:06:21 +0000

Find in this brochure how EMSA operates maritime information systems to support the maritime monitoring activities of the Commission and Member States. These systems are able to: monitor ship position...

Final report of the EMSA commissioned study on standards and rules for bunkering of gas-fuelled ships (by Germanischer Lloyd) – OP/06/2012

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 08:00:58 +0000

The objective of this report to provide a detailed description of the existing rule framework related to LNG bunkering. This report provides recommendations for possible common EU wide guidelines for ...

Work Programme 2013

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 12:05:00 +0000

Besides describing the well-known tasks of EMSA and the purpose of its activities in the fields of maritime safety, security and pollution prevention and response, the EMSA Work Programme also give in...

Revised founding regulation published

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 09:27:18 +0000

Following its adoption by the European Parliament and the Council, the amendment to EMSA’s founding regulation has now been published in the Official Journal of the European Union as Regulation (EU) N...