Report
Tanker Safety Expert Panel II: HNS
Unlike Canada’s oil spill response regime, there is currently no similar regulatory program in place for HNS preparedness and response.
Unlike Canada’s oil spill response regime, there is currently no similar regulatory program in place for HNS preparedness and response.
Clear Seas, MEOPAR and exactEarth hosted an interactive workshop on how advances in maritime traffic monitoring and modelling can directly improve marine safety best practices, emergency response and cross-jurisdictional collaboration across the Pacific Northwest on April 11 and 12, 2016 in Vancouver, BC.
Compared to areas south of the 60th parallel, the Arctic is a much more complex environment within which to prepare for and respond to spills.
This Chapter draws on the experience of other national jurisdictions on centralized Marine Casualty Management systems.
The April 2016 workshop was featured in an article by Colin Laughlan published in the June 2016 Issue of BC Shipping News.
Digest on Transport Canada’s 2013 Tanker Safety Expert Panel report covering areas south of the 60th parallel.
Canada’s top regions for international shipping of various cargo types are the Pacific, Great Lakes, St. Lawrence River and the Atlantic.
New report on the need for better-quality shipping data to fully understand the causes of marine shipping accidents and their potential impacts.