Project Consortium

EfficienSEA (Efficient, Safe and Sustainable Traffic at Sea) is an EU Baltic Sea Region project 2009-2011 with following project consortium:

• Danish Maritime Safety Administration (DAMSA) (Lead Partner)
• SSPA Sweden AB
• Swedish Maritime Administration (SMA)
• Norwegian Coastal Administration (NCA)
• Kymenlaakso University of Applied Sciences (KYAMK)
• Swedish Maritime Safety Inspectorate (SMSI)
• Finnish Maritime Administration (FMA)
• Estonian Maritime Administration (EMA)
• Chalmers University of Technology (Chalmers)
• Helsinki University of Technology (TKK)
• Seven research organisations in Norway and Poland.

Funding

The total project volume is about 8 million euro (80 MSEK) and SSPA´s part is about 10 %, where also the Västra Götaland Region is contributing financially. The project is by EU classified as “Strategic”.

Project Aim

The overall aim of the project is to promote sustainable use of the Baltic Sea. Long term project impacts are envisaged as follows:

• Maritime passenger and goods transport in the Baltic Sea should be safe, secure and sustainable in the future.
• Measures to accomplish this should minimise the burden on navigators and VTS operators as well as maximise maritime traffic efficiency.
• Management plans should be integrated at different spatial scales, i.e. from local to regional and ultimately global.
• Increased human capital within the maritime industry, as the industry needs professionals in order to maintain and increase safety and efficiency of maritime traffic in the future.

Work Packages

Work Package 1: Project Management, Technical assistance and overarching recommendations.

SSPA will support the Lead Partner in this work.

Work Package 2: Dissemination, information and communication.

Work Package 3: Maritime Competences & Recruitment.

Work Package 4: e-Navigation.

SSPA will participate to assess which of the emerging innovation in e-Navigation that would make processing and dissemination of Maritime data/information more efficient - leading to improved maritime safety. The Work Package includes planning e-Navigation zone, establishing user needs, planning demonstration, establishing the e-Navigation zone, and conduct demonstrations and verifications.

Work Package 5: Vessel Traffic Data and Maritime Planning.

Coastal and maritime planning should follow an integrated ecosystem–based approach where the biological diversity, structure, functioning and productivity of the ecosystems is maintained. SSPA will participate to address the safety challenges emerging from the growing competing uses of the sea. The Work Package includes numerical simulation of maritime traffic, AIS management and planning tools, transmitted AIS information quality, environmental data and sensitivity mapping, and atmospheric emissions.

Work Package 6: Dynamic Risk Management.

SSPA participates to develop and demonstrate different approaches of dynamic risk management in order to optimise the investments for a safe and clean Baltic Sea. This means that the developed dynamic risk management in an efficient way shall reduce the number and the severity of foremost accidents leading to pollution of the marine environment. The Work Package includes identification of user needs and system specification, risk analysis algorithm development based on historical AIS-data, dynamic algorithm for analyzing online-situations, framework on costs of accidents and safety measures, risk reduction of pilotage and Vessel Traffic Service (VTS), effect of navigation aids, and shipwreck leakage.