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36% of the world’s oceans are encompassed within the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) definitions of an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). 97% of world trade travels by sea and thus passes through someone’s EEZ and port facilities. Maintaining law and order, environmental protection, safety of navigation and transit of shipping, and safety of life at sea present many challenges. This conference stream focused on the innovative solutions linked with state of the art technologies to address these challenges.
| Chairman - Commander Steve Kerchey, Exclusive Economic Zone Adviser, Defence Exports Services Organization chairs the EEZ Management stream with its theme ‘Solutions and Technology for Optimising Control of Maritime Zones’. |
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The Chairman’s views prior to the conference:
“The EEZ market is very wide covering everything from protecting natural resources such as fishing and offshore platforms to safeguarding the environment through pollution control, to managing sea borders through counter drugs, weapons and illegal immigrant operations to safety of shipping,” explains Steve Kerchey.
“All of this requires a government’s commitment to put in place an effective management and control organization. This in turn requires the procurement of assets, Command and Control arrangements and systems and the provision of trained personnel. Many nations have embraced the concept and developed effective strategies, but for others the funding is difficult and must vie for primacy amongst many other equally compelling government departments.”
Looking forward to WMTC 2006 Cdr Kershey adds: “The broad range of topics covered by a cosmopolitan set of speakers will demonstrate the diverse nature of the market, what can be done to achieve the responsibilities and explain some of the technologies that exist to implement an EEZ management and control environment.” Some of the topics this stream will focus on include:
• Command and control
crisis management • communications and surveillance • vessel tracking and monitoring systems
• Maintenance of law and order
countering narcotics traffic and piracy • countering slavery and illegal immigration • countering maritime terrorism
• Environmental protection
oil spills and responses • fisheries regeneration • regulating tourism
• Safety of navigation and transit
traffic separation schemes • search and rescue • GMDSS and AIS
• Ship and port facility security (ISPS Code)
risk assessments • physical measures • logistic end-to-end tracking
• Management of mineral and ecological resources
fisheries management • seabed mining • oil and gas field safety and protection
• EEZ management vessels
corvettes and OPVs • workboats and specialist craft • designing for balanced capability
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