PROPOSAL FOR AMENDMENT OF

HELCOM RECOMMENDATION 34E-2

Content

• Amendment proposal in short

• STM

– Background

– Achievements

– Supported functionality

– Next steps

• Amendment proposal in detail

Amendment proposal

• HELCOM AIS EWG 28 welcomed the plan by Sweden to propose to MARITIME 17-2017 an amendment of HELCOM Recommendation 34E/2 to support the Baltic Sea region in being a first region for the development of services for exchange of information.

• Requested Sweden to prepare an amendment proposal for further consideration in VTS Harmonisation Working Group and SAFE NAV

• SAFE NAV 8, Minor changes in cooperated in the proposal.

• Input paper to HELCOM Maritime 17.

Call for action

The Meeting is invited to:

- Consider the proposed amendments of HELCOM Recommendation 34E/2;

- Consider the need for, and propose, other amendments;

- Note the information in Annex 2 regarding the test bed of Sea Traffic Management in the Baltic Sea;

- Advise HOD as appropriate.

Enhanced monitoring

Victoria

Sabina

Another example(screenshots from a real situation)

A southbound tanker heading for shallow waters approximately 0.5 M away from grounding.

First contact between the Vessel and the VTS

The VTS observes that the Vessel is heading for shallow waters and calls on VHF Question: ”Are you aware of the situation?” The Vessel replies ”Yes, we are altering”

1 M

Second contact

At this point the VTS Operator advices the Vessel to come hard to starboard!

Outcome

The Baltic Sea31 May 2003

Standardized exchange of voyage plans

Voyage Information Service

Service provider

Ports

Fleet operations

Ice breaking services

Shore Centre/VTS

Share VPFind servicesControl access

Get VPSubscribe to VPSend VP

SAR

Shoreside actors

Voyage InformationService & SeaSWIMconnector

Service Registry

Identity Registry

Maritime Connectivity Platform

SeaSWIM

Ship systems withSTM functionality

MSW

RTZ, IEC 61174:2015

Whom to share information with

Nordic Pilot Route Service

Pilot´splanned

route

Ship´splanned

route

Shared mental Model?

Nordic pilot route serviceA voyage plan in ECDIS…

Imagery: Adveto AB

Pilot routes displayed in ECDIS…

Imagery: Adveto AB

…merged with voyage plan

Imagery: Adveto AB

…merged with voyage plan

Efficient planning

Shared mental model

Safe navigation berth-to-berth

Fulfilling IMO res. A.893(21) on voy. planning

Imagery: Adveto AB

A grounded vessel, CTH Emilie, east of Vinga. Could this have been avoided?

Route cross-check

Situation 30 minutes before the Grounding

At this stage, with a conventional VTS system, it is not easy to foresee a grounding. The Vessel enters the VTS area, obviously heading for pilot boardingposition and its AIS reads destination Gothenburg. Nothing indicates a dangerous situation for the moment.

Position for Grounding

Situation 10 minutes before the grounding

Here you can see that something might be wrong. The vessel has passed the Pilot Boarding Position, no pilot in sight, and the vessel proceeds towards a very narrowpassage. Has now the VTS Operator noted the situation he, or she, has about five

minutes left to call the vessel and give it information about a safer route.

Situation 2 minutes before the grounding

At this very late stage an alarm signal is likely to sound from the VTS System indicatingthat a vessel is approaching shallow waters. The VTS Operator may still be able toprevent the accident but it will take both skill and a swift intervention from him or her.

Same situation with shipsVoyage Plan shared in advance

In this case the vessel has chosen to share its Voyage Plan with the VTS. Whenthe plan is reviewed by VTS it is obvious that the planned route is highlyunusual and dangerous.

Contact is made with the incoming Vessel, a new route is sent complemented with a

text message

The incoming Vessel´s Officers can now review the suggestion from the VTS in their own ECDIS. Should they find it good they can Cross-check the route and take it in to monitoring, and the grounding situation is solved well in advance.

Ice BreakerAle willassist westof Åland.

Rendes Vouzpoint with IceBreaker Oden 0600 Mondaymorning.

• Dirways• Routes• Monitoring• Text messages

RecomendedPassage through Sea ofBothnia

Winter NavigationProvides ships information related to Ice Breaker assistance in

the Northern Baltic

Nav Warnings

Relevant NAV Warning

Not Relevant NAV Warning

Ship-Ship route exchange

Improved Safety

Risk

reduction

rate

Flow

Management

by flow

optimisation

Flow

Management

by enhanced

monitoring

Dynamic

Voyage

Management

by route

exchange

Weighted

combined

rate

Collisions 58% 5% 52% 81%

Groundings 6% 64% 8% 69%Source: ML2 D2 FSA – Formal Safety Assessment. NB. Navigational accidents caused by human errors

€ 100 million / year + lives

Syncronized port calls

At next port of call, information is shared between port actors. The information is synchronizedwithin the Port CDM feature and an optimal time of arrival can be presented to the incoming ship.

VTS KvitsöyVTS Horten

Joint operations center/ maritme surveillance

VTS/SC Gothenburg

Winter navigation service

VTS TalinnVTS St. Petersburg

Harmonization with other initiatives and connection to MSP

STM

Enabling distributed service related to the berth-to-berth voyage enabling the efficient, safe, and

environmentally sustainable sea transport

=> STM is an example of implementing part of IMO’s e-navigation initiative

IMO E-navigation Maritime Service Portfolios (MSP):

As part of the improved provision of services to vessels through e-

navigation, MSPs have been identified as the means of providing

electronic information in a harmonised way

Initiatives that uses the same infrastructure, upcoming and current

• STM Validation Project (Current)• ENSI (Current, Finnish initiative Gulf of Finland)• e-Navigation project St Petersburg (Current Russian testbed

in St Petersburg Area)• EfficientSea II (Interreg, Danish led)• Real Time Ferries (Current, 14 different corridors in BSR)• Efficient Flow (Current, Gävle – Rauma Stockholm – Turku)• STM SAFENAV (Proposed, Tanker safety project in BSR)• STM BSR (Proposed, Wider project to include more

stakeholders)• …

Call for action

The Meeting is invited to:

- Consider the proposed amendments of HELCOM Recommendation 34E/2;

- Consider the need for, and propose, other amendments;

- Note the information in Annex 2 regarding the test bed of Sea Traffic Management in the Baltic Sea;

- Advise HOD as appropriate.

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