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ACTIONS
Institutional and Capacity Building (continued)
VESSELS 101
• providing efficient and effective water pollution and salvage notification, monitoring
and response system to co-ordinate and/or control an effective response to pollution
and salvage incidents;
• establishing and maintaining national contingency plans for water pollution preparedness
and response;
• approving port oil contingency plans;
• approving local authority contingency plans;
• exercising national and local contingency plans;
• prevention pollution through casualty intervention, salvage control and control of any
transfer operations outside harbours and port areas by monitoring, issuing directions
and taking direct action;
• on receiving information about casualties, water pollution or risk of water pollution,
deciding whether a combat operation should be launched and, if so, what means or
counter-measures should be used;
• implementing and enforcing national and international water pollution legislation
including gathering evidence for illegal discharges;
• Provision of national training courses on water pollution response; and
• Issuing directions or taking direct action to prevent, mitigate or eliminate pollution.
The coast guard or inland waterway authority should deliver its emergency response through a
mixture of declared resources and craft like patrol vessels and helicopters and services like a rescue
coordination centre.
Port Authorities
Port authorities should implement, within their port limits, comprehensive emergency response plans.
These should enable port facility users, such as terminals, inland waterway barges and emergency
service personnel, to manage an effective and safe response to emergencies within the port's limits.
They should provide guidelines for actions to be taken during an emergency to minimise the potential
for loss of life, injury to people, and damage to the environment and property by covering foreseeable
incidents and outlining remediation.
The objectives of emergency response plans should be to:
• provide an emergency response capability within port limits;
• offer incident assistance, coordination, communications and water transport expertise
to the emergency response squad;
• facilitate training, development and response planning; and
• provide capability for exercise analysis plus incident review and response.