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Group 2, Scenario 2 Port of Galle CBRNE Incident. Tempest Express 24 Colombo, Sri Lanka 31 March – 09 April 2014. PORT OF GALLE, SRI LANKA. Sri Lanka’s main port in southern province Medium-sized port; includes cranes, tugs, warehouses, customs and quarantine facilities
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Group 2, Scenario 2Port of Galle CBRNE Incident Tempest Express 24Colombo, Sri Lanka 31 March – 09 April 2014
PORT OF GALLE, SRI LANKA • Sri Lanka’s main port in southern province • Medium-sized port; includes cranes, tugs, warehouses, customs and quarantine facilities • Close to city, road and rail transport • Supports merchant and pleasure craft • Closest Sri Lanka point of approach for vessels transiting between Suez Canal/Persian Gulf and Asia • Susceptible to Southwest Monsoon effects • http://www.slpa.lk/contact_us_gallePort.asp#
SCENARIO 2 • Date: 01 April 2014 • Location: Port of Galle, southern Sri Lanka • Problem: At 1130Z, • Container vessel MV Dondra Express is unloading shipping containers in Port of Galle. It is moored at dock in middle of its offloading containers operation. • As ship’s crane lifts one particular container of “scrap metal” TGHU 307703 0 22G1, a crane cable breaks causing container to fall 25 meters where it ruptures, contents spill on the dock and into the bay. • Workers immediately police up scattered “scrap metal” in area while others try to repair crane. • Most “scrap metal” on dock is put into another container while smaller bits are pushed in water. • Workers hose the dock off and resume offload operations. Several shipyard support trucks/vehicles drive thru hosed off areas in the course of their duties. • Other containers that were on MV Dondra Express adjacent to where “scrap metal” container was secured are now trans loaded to a smaller container ship in the harbor, MV Mercmas I as well as to awaiting vehicles for overland transport. • At some point it is discovered that TGHU 307703 0 22G1 was a hot box emitting profuse radiation due to having radioactive contents, stevedores get sick, unknown amounts of radioactive material may have contaminated dock area and surrounding containers on original ship. • Radioactive material may have spread in harbor, spread to another ship, and been trucked inland to Galle and points beyond …
COLOMBO NATL. CAPITAL GALLE 110 KM SOUTH OF COLOMBO
PORT OF GALLE
PORT OF GALLE
PORT OF GALLE
MV DONDRA EXPRESS OFFLOADING CONTAINERS
PORT OF GALLE
CONTAINER INFO • The code on the container—TGHU 307703 0 22G1 • TGHU prefix tags it as the property of Textainer, a Bermuda-based shipping concern that owns more than 2.4 million boxes just like it • The lone zero is a “check digit” that helps confirm the box’s identity • 22G1 designates it as an unventilated, 20-foot-long dry shipping container • 307703 is the unique part of the ID, that lets shippers and investigators track its long, winding journey to Galle • A Textainer spokesperson says the company last saw container 307703 in April 2012, when its six steel walls were leased to “an established customer” • Sri Lankan officials say the customer was Mediterranean Shipping Company(MSC), a shipping goliath headquartered in Geneva • In October 2012, the box was packed at a metal yard in Saudi Arabia under the auspices of Sun Metal Casting, a scrap-metal dealer in the Arab emirate of Ajman • In recent years, scrap metal has become a booming global business, with manufacturers continually searching for cheaper places to get metals like steel and copper • 307703′s load was bound for a foundry in Colombo, 110 KM miles north of Galle • A photo snapped by the shipper before 307703′s doors were closed and sealed with a thumb-sized lead-and-plastic tag shows radiators and coils of copper wire piled almost to the roof • Assuming photo is actually of the same container and the container wasn’t tampered with
SRI LANKAN ASSETS AVAILABLETO SUPPORT FIRE 1 X XXX MEDICAL 1 X XXX OTHER 1 X XXX • NAVY • 1 X XXX • 1 X XXX • 1 X XXX • ARMY • 1 X XXX • AIR FORCE • 1 X XXX • POLICE • 1 X XXX
FOREIGN ASSETS AVAILABLETO SUPPORT AUS 13TH FLD SQDN, PERTH CAN ELEMENTS OF 4TH ENGR RGT THA 2 X MEDICAL TEAMS GBR 22D FIELD HOSPITAL • USA • 1 X USCG INCIDENT RESP TM • 1 X DDG (HOWARD (DDG-83)) • 2 X SH-60B • 1 X CHEM CO (71 CM CO, USA) • 1 X HAST (3D MEB) • BGD • 1 X FFG (BNS BANGABANDHU) • 1 X HELO • MYS • 1 X MEDICAL TEAM • SGP • 1 X ENGR CO
GROUP 2 Tasks PROBLEM Could it be weaponized? Propose other ideas for Sri Lankan military for CBRNE training • Using the Military Decision Making Process-Multinational, determine the best course-of-action to respond to this situation • Discuss / document considerations for first aid, contamination, security, foreign assets, weather, time, mitigation of spill, mission RoE, public affairs • Container tracing?