Annual General Assembly 2003 - Alexandria

Session 4 WGII

Maritime Risk Management Exercise Using E-mail Network

Kenji ISHIDA, Takashi NAGAMATSU, Yesinia YANO
Kobe University of Mercantile Marine Fukaeminami Machi 5-1-1, Higashinada-Ku, Kobe-Shi, 658-0022 JAPAN
E-mail: k-ishida@cc.kshosen.ac.jp, nagamatu@cc.kshosen.ac.jp

ABSTRACT

There were maritime incidents with large scale oil spill which seriously damaged the maritime environment in the world. The incidents showed many complex problems to be solved, such as;

• Technology and hardware for rescue and for oil recovering,
• Compensation of the environmental damage,
• International regulation of substandard ships and Port State Control.

Inspired by that incident, we have been assessing the all countermeasures and applied procedures of the incident as one of the Risk Management researches in our university. Our research group prepares the model scenario of the marine incident with large oil spill. The simulation models of maritime incident is divided into three stages in the scenario with tasks from simple to complicated and carried out by students and staffs at the university by utilizing the national/international e-mail networks until the completion of the scenario.

In this paper, we would like to introduce our simulation exercise method with the following scenario of incidence. An oil tanker collides with a container at the mouth of Suez Canal and about 200 kls cargo oil are spilling out from the tanker. The spilled oil is drifting into the canal and influences the operation of vessel traffics of the canal. Participants play a role as a captain of taker, a captain of container, owners of theses ships, a canal master, commander of the coast guard, ships of oil recovering, tugboat company, city mayor, oil fence operator, a headquarter of the incident, media etc. These participants have to solve this oil spill incident through the e-mail net. The exercise starts from the first collision report from the tanker captain to the canal master or the coast guard through the e-mail. Then the participants as their role have to solve the incidents on the LAN.

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