BackCollaborating for Enhanced Resilience: Maritime Example
This text was originally published at Interreg Baltic Sea Region website.
Discover how Interreg Baltic Sea Region projects are revolutionising maritime safety. Such innovative approaches are essential for ensuring safe navigation in the Baltic Sea. With these efforts, the Interreg Baltic Sea Region also supports the aspirations of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region in making the Baltic Sea region a model for sustainable shipping.
Safe Navigation is a Must!
Interreg Baltic Sea Region projects are enhancing sea navigation safety by developing next-generation navigational products and services that comply with new international standards. Project partners are advancing safe shipping by digitalising navigational charts in the Baltic Sea e-Nav project, establishing a new height reference system in the BalMarGrav project, developing alternative positioning services in the ORMOBASS project, and creating new risk assessment and management tools in the OpenRisk II project.
Important for the EUSBSR
The solutions developed by these projects advance the EUSBSR policy areas Ship and Safe in their mission to make the Baltic Sea region a model region for sustainable shipping. Together, project partners and the coordinators of the EUSBSR policy areas ensure that our region can function as a test-bed for new and innovative products, services, methods, and practices addressing global challenges.
“Projects are the main tool to realise the objectives of the EUSBSR Action Plan.” – Ulf Siwe, Policy Area Safe Coordinator
The Coordinator of the EUSBSR Policy Area Safe, Ulf Siwe, Swedish Maritime Administration, stated: Projects are the main tool to realise the objectives of the EUSBSR Action Plan. For example, Baltic Sea e-Nav helps PA Safe to obtain the actions ‘Providing reliable navigational conditions to the Baltic Sea’ and ‘To be a forerunner in digitalisation and automation’ as well as PA Ship’s ‘Support measures including digitalisation in reducing emissions from shipping’.
The project results are essential to drive policy changes. The Baltic Sea e-Nav project helps EU Member States implement the Under Keel Clearance policies among the first in the world, which will mean that ships can load more goods and increase safety margins at the same time.
The Coordinators of the Policy Areas Safe and Ship assist project partners with the definition of a change strategy and further implementation of the developed solutions after the projects conclude. We also disseminate the project results and use them to stimulate new project ideas taking concepts even further.
Explore other projects enhancing maritime safety:
- The MaDaMe project develops digital fairway services and cyber secure communication for maritime authorities to efficiently share navigational information and increase safety at sea.
- To ensure safer navigation at the Baltic Sea, the project ORMOBASS introduces a terrestrial R-Mode system that replaces global navigation satellite systems in case of disruptions, and warns ships about increased navigational risks.
- The project OpenRisk II equips maritime authorities and intergovernmental organisations with the risk assessment and risk management tools and thus helps to minimise maritime accidents and their footprint on the marine environment.
- The project BalMarGrav harmonises data on the Earth’s gravity across the region to feed it into a new height reference system for safer navigation, offshore infrastructure and sea traffic management.
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