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Traffic Monitoring today and in the future. Maritime Office in Gdynia. Why do we monitor and interact with vessels ?. Prevent pollution – added economical value Investigate incidents/ accidents and react immediatelly Prevent dangerous situations Provide early warning
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Traffic Monitoring today and in the future Maritime Office in Gdynia
Why do we monitor and interact with vessels ? • Prevent pollution – added economical value • Investigate incidents/ accidents and react immediatelly • Prevent dangerous situations • Provide early warning • Enhance traffic organisation - added economical value
Obligations • SOLAS Convention • Directive 2002/59/EC • Act of Parliament on polish sea areas and maritime administration - 1991 • Orders of Ministry of Infrastructure
Tasks • Monitor, supervise, organize and interact with shipping • Collect and store data on maritime traffic conditions • Exchange information on maritime traffic conditions
VTS- modern lighthouse • We will guide you • We will warn you • We will inform you on incoming danger
Area of Responsibility • Interaction with vessels • Radar image • AIS (Automatic Identification System) data • Services: Navigational Assistance, Traffic Organisation, Information service
How and what do we monitor today ? • VHF Communication • VTS (Vessel Traffic Service) Radar system • AIS (Automatic Identification System) • Data bases • MSIES- Maritime Safety Information Exchange System (SWIBŻ)
Can we see everything? • Volountary system for yachts and fishing boats • Identification problems • Limits of radar range and detection • Limits of AIS data • Limits of responsibility areas
Do we need to monitor all the vessels? • Baltic Sea • Cost and benefit balance • Costs of the pollution • Safety of the envroinment • Cost of the lost cargo • Human life • Local economies affected by adverse factors of maritime traffic
Future means of vessels monitoring • LRIT –Long Range Identification and Tracking • Sattelite Images for pollution prevention • Small vessels identification and tracking
Need for regulation and division of responsoibility • What can we do outside area of responsibility? • Difference between passive monitoring and interaction
Tasks Baltic MaSTER traffic monitoring workshop • Define areas – with no monitoring of particular vessels • Define areas- with no interaction with particular vessels • Exchange experiences • Brainstorm ideas for use of available and future means of traffic monitoring (Baltic Traffic Centre)
Contribution for Baltic MaSTER project for WP2 • Provide detailed statistics of traffic • Forecast traffic level • Provide input for Formal Safety Assesment - studies - systematic process for assesing risks and evaluating IMO options for reducing risks.