Environmental Protection and Maritime Transport Pollution
Control in the Gulf of Honduras
(DRAFT)
TERMS OF REFERENCE: CONSULTING ON DIAGNOSE OF
NAVIGATIONAL RISKS AND HARMONIZATION OF
REGULATIONS RELATED TO THE SECURITY OF NAVIGATION.
Project: Environmental protection and Control of the Contamination originated by the marine
Transport in the Gulf of Honduras
(GRT/FM-9179-RS)
Honduras, Guatemala, Belice
(GRT/FM 9179-RS)
Ana Carolina Sikaffy
Maritime Specialist
June 12th,2007
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Content Table
0. INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................. 3
0.1. PRECEDENTS: ............................................................................................................ 3
0.2. ACTIVITIES AND OBJECTIVES ..................................................................................... 3
0.2.1 GENERAL OBJECTIVES : ....................................................................................... 5
0.2.2 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES: ......................................................................................... 5
1. EXECUTIVE ACTIVITIES: ................................................................................................... 6
1.1. NAVIGATIONAL RISK IDENTIFICATION ....................................................................... 6
1.2.. PRECEDENTS OF PORT ACTIVITIES: ............................................................................ 6
1.3. ACCESS ROUTES AND VESSEL TRAFFIC: . .................................................................... 7
1.4. NAVIGATIONAL AIDS:................................................................................................ 7
1.5. NATIONAL AND REGIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR COASTAL HANDLING:. ......................... 8
1.6. LEGISLATION AND APPLICABLE REGULATIONS IN THE GULF OF HONDURAS: .............. 9
1.7. CONTAMINATION GENERATION / PREVENTION AND PROCESS OPTIMIZATION: .......... 10
1.8. DIAGNOSIS OF THREATS TO THE SAFETY OF PORT OPERATIONS AND ON THE
NAVIGATIONAL CHANNEL: ............................................................................................. 11
1.9. CONTINGENCIES PLAN: ............................................................................................ 12
1.10. COMMUNICATION AMONG PORTS: .......................................................................... 12
1.11. WORKSHOPS AND SPECIAL TRAININGS: .................................................................. 12
2. RESULTS AND EXPECTED PRODUCTS: .......................................................................... 13
3.CONSULTING FIRMS REQUISITES:. ................................................................................ 14
3.1. PROFILE OF TECHNICAL PERSONNEL OF THE FIRM: .................................................. 14
3.2. CONSULTING FIRM RESPONSABILITIES: ................................................................... 14
4. WORKPPLACE: ............................................................................................................ 15
5. SELECTION METHODS: ................................................................................................ 16
5.1. Contract and Hiring: ............................................................................................. 16
6. LETTER OF INTEREST: ................................................................................................. 16
7. TERMS AND TENTATIVE TIMETABLE:.......................................................................... 17
7.1 PAYMENT:................................................................................................................ 18
8. COORDINATION: ......................................................................................................... 19
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0. INTRODUCTION.
0.1. PRECEDENTS
The governments of Honduras, Guatemala and Belize have agreed to
advance forward on the program for the “Environmental Protection and
Control of the Contamination caused by the Marine Transport in the Gulf of
Honduras” (the Program). It is focused on the demonstration of new
technologies to tackle some of the main environmental problems of the Gulf,
which lead to the degradation of the coastal and marine ecosystems,
provoked by human activities. The objective of the program in the long
term, is “to try to revert" the degradation of the marine and coastal
ecosystems, intensifying the control and prevention of the contamination
caused by maritime transport in the main ports and routes of navigation,
improving navigational safety to avoid grounding and spilling and minimize
pollutant entrance, coming from terrestrial sources of contamination to the
coastal areas and adjacent marinas inside the Gulf of Honduras.
The program has the support of the Global Environment Fund (GEF) and of
the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) as Implementation Agency for
the GEF. For this, the parts have agreed that the Central American
Commission of Maritime Transport (COCATRAM) acts as the executing
institution to the IDB with support from the Central American Commission
of Ambience and Development (CCAD) as Co-executor. The Regional
Coordinating Unit of the Program (RCUP) constitutes the technical and
administrative part for the execution of the present consultancy.
The Gulf of Honduras, delimited by Belize, Guatemala, includes an area of
approximately 10,000 km2; the basins that spill their waters cover an
approximate area of 60,000 km2. The western part of the Gulf is bordered by
The Mesoamerican Arrecifal System (MAS), the second most extensive
coral barrier of the world. The slightly deep waters of the Gulf lodge plenty
of species, some threatened or in danger of extinction, as well as highly
productive marine ecosystem, like coral reefs, marine grasslands and
swamps.
The conditions that maintain the productivity and diversity of the Gulf are
the same factors that combined with elements of economic and socio cultural
character do make the area vulnerable to the terrestrial and maritime
contamination.
The sources of terrestrial contamination of water,
contamination of the air, solid waste, as well as, insecticides, agrochemicals
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and industrial contaminants suggesting that the sediments placed in the
coastal zones contain high levels of persistent toxic contaminants among
others. The maritime sources of contamination such as ballast water in
international seas, sewage water and others, also contribute to the present
conditions of contamination of the coastal-marine environment and the
degradation of the ecosystems of the region...
The tourism, coastal aquiculture and industrial activities are also increasing
on the area. The expansion of the road network to the three countries,
combined with the increase of investments on infrastructure, is producing
an intensive migration of workpeople towards the rural areas located along
the coastline of the Gulf of Honduras. This obviously exercises and adds to
the already existing pressure on the marine coastal resources of the region.
The Gulf of Honduras is an important maritime area for the commercial
exchange of the region. Out of the load mobilized by the Central American
regional ports, a 21 % corresponding to 14 million tons of cargo, does it
across the ports located in the Gulf, where more than 26 % of all ships berth.
The main port facilities of the Gulf of Honduras are Puerto Cortes
(Honduras), Puerto Barrios and Santo Tomas de Castilla Port (Guatemala)
and Big Creek (Belize). The Port of the City of Belize, although located to
the north of the Gulf of Honduras, is also included in this project due to
potential spills that take place in the above mentioned port, which affects the
Gulf of Honduras as a consequence of the oceanographic currents. The ports
of the Gulf represent an entry door as well as a strategic exit with marine
services of highly connectivity and frequency of services towards different
destinations. In 2004, approximately 7,000 vessels harbored at the five ports
and the trend indicates that this number will increase. With the volume
increase of products, the shipping companies are using vessels with higher
draught. Consequently there are plans for enlargement of port operations and
for the dredging of deepest access channels in order to give capacity to
bigger vessels.
The ports daily operations, as well as the collision risk of vessels or of oil
spills raise a significant risk for the coastal ecosystems of the Gulf. The
spills that take place in the Gulf, particularly in the Bay of Amatique, have
the potential of devastating the sensitive nearby habitats, included the coral
reefs that have demonstrated signs of degradation, and having economic
impacts of long term in the increasing tourist industry along the coast of
Guatemala and in the southern part of Belize.
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The countries participate in several maritime international agreements,
among them the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
(UNCLOS), the Convention of Antigua, the Convention of Cartagena, the
International Convention for the prevention of pollution from ships
(MARPOL) and others related to the maritime transport and pollution that
have been promoted by the International Maritime Organization (IMO).
Nevertheless, the lack of implementation norms has limited the effectiveness
of the examinations and the application of the agreements, as well as the
coordination between agencies and the existence of clear lines of authority in
every country. National commitments with these agreements have not been
reflected clearly or translated into actions in the region, including the Gulf of
Honduras.
In addition to being signatories of international agreements, Honduras,
Guatemala and Belize have promulgated a variety of national laws and other
juridical instruments oriented to the environmental protection, including the
prevention and control of the contamination. Nevertheless, the national laws
have, in general, lacked norms that help their implementation, since there is
no adequate institutional support for the national and local framework.
0.2. ACTIVITIES AND OBJECTIVES
0.2.1 GENERAL OBJECTIVE:
The general objective of this consultancy is to promote a safe navigation in the Gulf of
Honduras, contributing to the prevention and control of the contamination from marine
transport operations.
0.2.2 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE:
A. To analyze the best possible navigational routes in order to contribute to the
prevention and control of the contamination as well as to diminish and avoid
accidental spills of ships and discharges in the sea that belongs to maritime transport
operations, it will also serve to develop infrastructure and capacity to face spills
incidents in case they occur
B. Results of this consultancy will be useful to promote a safe navigation in the Program
area by means of new Technologies, information diffusion, implementation of safety
codes and safe navigational routes.
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C. To analyze and to improve the hydrographic and oceanographic capacity in the gulf
area and proximity to the five ports of the program.
D. To analyze the politics and legislations that governs the navigation in each one of the
three countries of the project to achieve a harmonization of these laws in the national
and regional ambience. Definition of legal responsibilities in each country to facilitate
process of ratification of agreements.
E. To improve regional communications capacity related to navigational safety.
F.
To create a manual of norms and operative technical procedures for the safety of
navigation.
G. To develop and present a set of proposals for reforms to the legal frame relative to the
safety of navigation and that will also contribute to a better harmonization of the
laws in the area.
1. EXECUTIVE ACTIVITIES:
1.1. NAVIGATIONAL RISKS INDENTIFICATION:
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To define and to analyze sources of all possible navigational risks in the Gulf of
Honduras and its socioeconomic impact and study of vulnerabilities and indicators
of risk to the harbor approaches to the five ports of the program.
1.2...PRECEDENTS OF PORT ACTIVITIES:
1. A complete description of types of port terminals in the area.
2.
Brief analysis of all five port activities: This must include navigational activities
and port operations like:
o To identify all type of navigational facilities (including mainly in this point
the maintenance of the level of depth of harbor waters and consequently the
works of dredging for maintenance)
o Describe the supplying, ship waste reception and provisions in ports.
o Investigate if there are activities of cargo transfer between ships in the Gulf of
Honduras area.
o Description of Pilotage (practice) and maritime traffic control in each port.
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o Describe safety measures in each port in order to increase port navigational
safety.
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To define if there are any communication mechanisms in between ports in
regards to vessel traffic control that navigates the gulf area.
o Description of the handling of dangerous goods by port.
1.3. ACCESS ROUTES AND VESSEL TRAFFIC:
1. Definition of navigational coastal and port access routes and from interior waters,
and a clear lay out of actual and future navigational practices in the region in order to
be able to create a data of all risk evaluation processes in the present time and for the
future.
2. Provide complete statistics of marine traffic in the area of study by vessel type, size
and cargo type (including mercantile, naval ships, fishing, tourist boats, etc)
3. Definition and maps of present navigational routes.
4. List all navigational aids by port (including visual aids: lights, buoys and beacons
and use of satellite, radio, radar, GPS and DGPS) to present/display existing copies of
hydrographic planes and navigation charts.
5. Total identification of possible areas of groundings in the Gulf and approaches to
port.
6. To identify the existence of traffic separation devices with the purpose of reducing
possibilities of boarding, groundings, with the consequent risks of marine
contamination in the ports of the region.
7. To recommend the best routes of navigation in the Gulf of Honduras (Mapping).
1.4. NAVIGATIONAL AIDS:
A. Verify the existence in each port of:
- Radio nautical messages, coastal and local warnings effective by means of radio
communications systems, NAVTEX and satellite systems that provide information on
nautical safety with greater speed
- Tide tables (identification of drastic weather changes in the zone)
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- Tide gauge stations. If they exist, please give details of the name of the station,
location, latitude and length, and if they are activated or deactivated.
- Department of marine safety in each port. (Give a detail of its working functions)
- If there are notice publications to mariners, do they contain modifications to be
incorporated into navigational charts, map courses and lists of lights and navigational
aids, or any newness that might affects the marine safety and any issue of interest to
the navigators?
- To describe and to analyze all existing navigational aids in all the five ports of the
program.
- To define if there are any oceanographic datacenters by country that maintain data
base and information files in support of naval operations and investigation and
development in sciences of the sea. If there are none, please develop a proposal for its
creation.
B. Design in each port of the program a VTS (Vessel traffic system) and information
system (VTMIS) that will be used to watch ships movements in ports and access
zones, as well as in coastal navigational routes. The primary target of these VTS is to
improve the effectiveness and the safety of maritime routes, protecting the
environment.
1.5. NATIONAL AND REGIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR COASTAL HANDLING:
A. To describe and to evaluate institutional, legal, political, and regulatory frame of
application and fulfillment of the laws for the safety in navigation, at a national
and international level.
B. To investigate, to evaluate and to analyze the existence of suitable
national policies including aspects related to the environment in which the
marine activity takes place and which contains the following:
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Safe and effective control of marine traffic.
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Administration of the coastal zone.
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Exploration and operation of marine resources.
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Environmental protection.
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Study and operative activities of the captainships.
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Procedures and prescriptions related to maritime safety.
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Hydrographic information
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Navigational diaries and registries.
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Investigation about maritime wrecks in the area.
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Prevention of chemical agents and petroleum spills.
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Ship standards.
1.6. LEGISLATION AND APPLICABLE REGULATIONS IN THE GULF OF HONDURAS:
1. Summarize each agreement or existing norm in respect to navigational safety and
maritime environmental protection in the area, by country, and elaborate a list of
regulation compliances and non compliances. Do establish also similarities and
differences among them
1.1 List of all international treaties ratified by each country of the program.
1.2 List of Norms that regulate liquid unloading in the ports.
1.3 List of Norms applicable to solid waste.
1.4 List of Norms applicable to maritime safety in the Gulf.
1.5 List of Norms that regulate the control and prevention of spills.
1.6 List of national and regional Agreements of prevention of contamination in
the area of the Gulf of Honduras.
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With the above information, the consultant group should do the following:
2.1 To analyze legal gaps that increase or diminish the safety of navigation and
the contamination in the Gulf of Honduras.
2.2 To analyze and to describe the existing legal structure.
2.3 To analyze which regulative norms are missing in order to improve the safety
of navigation and control of the marine contamination.
2.4 To analyze and to describe all regional policies and agreements in regards to
the Gulf of Honduras, which of them are fulfilled and which can be harmonized
between them.
3. To make national and regional workshops with the purpose of reviewing the
regional and national legal regulations and out of its result, give recommendations
for a greater unification for political, legal, regulatory and institutional legal
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frames for the safety of navigation. To present to the URCP in advance the
methodology that will be use for the execution of these workshops and its
approval.
4. To elaborate plans of action for the creation and maintenance of a safe
navigation (including proposal of norms to avoid groundings, collisions and to
prevent the non authorized unloading of toxic substances, even ballast water) and
the creation of mechanisms that harmonize the existing legislations and force the
fulfillment of those norms established in each one of the ports of the program.
5. To elaborate 10 proposals of reforms to the legal, institutional and normative
frame referring to the navigation safety and prevention and control of the
contamination in the Gulf of Honduras. Explain and give sustenance to proposals.
Do include municipal ordinances.
Note: Do consider that the three countries are part of numerous referring legal
instruments of International Right for the conservation of the environment. These
instruments include international agreements with binding effect and an increasing
amount of instruments of Soft Right (1). We can mention the Convention of the United
Nations on the Right of the Sea, the Convention of Cartagena, and the international
agreements elaborated in the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the
Convention on Biological Diversity. The instruments of Soft Right include the Code of
Conduct for fisheries from the FAO.
1.7. CONTAMINATION GENERATION / PREVENTION AND PROCESS OPTIMIZATION
A. Identify sources of polluting agent’s contaminants in waters of the Gulf with the
purpose of designing new work schemes in each port. Do elaborate
recommendations for prevention strategies.
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Analyze what are the preventive measures of management used in each
one of the five ports to assure a safer navigation.
2.
What are the measures for spill prevention in each of the five ports?
3.
To identify the impacts of the illegal ballast water spills oily ballast and
to determine if there are any infrastructure to treat them. If there are
none, please design a model as a demonstrative project in each one of the
ports.
4.
Do quantify impacts of petroleum spills and chemical substances that
have taken placed in the last five years in the five ports. Historical
investigation of facts occurred within the area
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Soft law (resolutions and declarations) that is of promotional nature and, in general, they extend the norms of hard law, like the
resolutions and declarations of international institutions and international conferences that are no of a binding effect.
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B. Do elaborate a detailed review on environmental impacts caused by the lack of a
safe navigation; for this you will have to use a numerical model application for
Evaluating the physical processes that make an impact on the marine environment
Simulating winds, surges, currents under normal conditions and during storms, in
order to help in the development of coastal marine projects that could help improve
The safety of navigation (the package MIKE 21 of the Danish Institute of
Hydrography or something similar is suggested).
C. Identify measures of prevention of potential impacts and suggest methods of
prevention and control of the contamination whit its associated costs.
D. Develop an integrated program for a safer navigation on the Gulf.
1.8. DIAGNOSIS OF HARBOR THREATS TO SAFETY IN THE NAVIGATIONAL ACCESS
CHANNEL AND PORT OPERATIONS:
The preventive measures of management are a complement for all programs for the
prevention of contamination and maritime safety. Within this frame, the diagnosis of
threats will allow the detections of critical points in navigational channels and will allow
the creations of controls to diminish the adverse effects produced by harbor tasks.
The process for the elaboration of the diagnosis will have to consist of:
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To carry out a regional preliminary analysis of all harbor activities that represents a
navigational risk and elaborates a list of corresponding measures for improvement.
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The preliminary analysis will include, among other aspects, the compilation of data
on each process, the procedures of existing safety control, management of waste and
risks management, using historical information available and topographical data.
With these results, there should be a matrix identifying each port strengths and
weaknesses, potential opportunities of improvement and problems. (Please consult
final report from Alatec/Valencia Port on Improvement of the environmental
management in the ports of the Gulf of Honduras (ATN/FG-9264-RS)
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1.9. CONTINGENCIES PLANS
1. To study and to analyze in detail contingencies plans in response to spills and
handling of dangerous goods by port.
a. Verification of all port equipment against spills (barriers of containment,
vacuum cleaners (skimmers), etc and training of personnel
b. Describe and develop a model for emergency response in each port.
c. If any of the ports of the program do not have a contingency plan, do elaborate
one, specifically for that port.
2. Design a regional contingencies response plan
1.10. COMMUNICATION AMONG PORTS
1. Do analyze the communication network between the 5 ports and if there is
none, do elaborate a plan of viable communication among them.
1.11. WORKSHOPS AND TRAININGS
A. To develop a participative workshop in each of the three countries in order to
present findings obtained.
B. Training for emergency oil and chemical spill response in each port of the
program.
C. Do develop a regional workshop for the revision of the regulatory legal frame in
the Gulf area.
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2. RESULTS AND EXPECTED PRODUCT
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Detailed work plan (including methodology of work, calendar of activities and
phases with objectives. This will have to be presented five days before the
signature of the contract).
- 1st Advance report: At the end of the first trimester including:
o Presentation of identified risk of navigation
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2nd Advance report: end second trimester
This second report will be validated by means of participative meetings with
harbor and environmental authorities, merchant marine, naval and
hydrographic institutions by country, as well as the URCP and executing and
financial of the program. The rough draft will include:
o Proposal for better shipping routes in the Gulf. (Map presentation and
explanation for proposed routes.)
o Design and presented study of a VTS and Information system by port.
o Presentation of one demonstration project by port.
o Presentation of prevention strategies for pollution control and
prevention in the Gulf.
o Presentation of an integral program for a safer navigation in Gulf
waters.
o Elaboration of Tran boundary regional plans of grounding prevention,
spills (of petroleum and chemical substances) and contingencies. In
addition, the presentation of recommendations to improve navigational
security in the Gulf.
At the end of the second trimester, we will expect to have:
o Presentation of a communication plan among ports(establishing of a
common regional communications protocols, and assisting in starting
national communications centers)
o Presentation of manual operative and technical norms procedures for
the generation of a safer navigation.
o Presentation of draft reforms for the institutional, legal, policy,
regulatory and enforcement framework for navigational safety and
pollution prevention throughout the Gulf of Honduras region and at a
national level.
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Detailed Profile of grounding areas in the Gulf of Honduras and its
approaches to ports.
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o Develop 3 information workshops about findings of the study and 3
spill response trainings.
- Final Report, original and 5 printed copies, electronic version that will include:
methodology used, manuals, findings, maps, recommendations. The electronic
version must be sent to all focal points of the program. It will be the responsibility
of the consultancy team.
3. CONSULTING FIRM REQUISITES:
3.1. PROFILE OF TECHNICAL PERSONNEL OF THE CONSULTING FIRM:
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Consulting firm must have in their team expert professionals whose university
education is compatible with the described tasks and activities in the present terms
of reference
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Professional could be specialized in field of marine transport, navigational safety,
port operations, strategic planning and a professional specialized in maritime law
with experience in environmental law.
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Proven work experience in the beneficiary countries of this program or in the
Central American region
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Professionals belonging to a country member of the Interamerican Development
Bank.
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Fully bilingual (English and Spanish) oral and written.
For the execution of the Program, the hiring of a consulting firm has been established,
which its professional team members must be citizens of any country member of the
I.D.B (Interamerican Development Bank), with demonstrated experience in planning,
maritime transport, handling of marine and coastal ecosystems, with experience in the
engineering disciplines, nautical or naval, with specialization in maritime transport,
navigational security and harbor operations with the purpose of developing an integrated
Program for a safer navigation in the Gulf, creation of better routes of navigation to avoid
groundings and accident prevention as well as avoiding spills of injurious substances to
the marine environment. The consulting team must have good experience working in the
region of the Gulf of Honduras. Also one of its members should be a professional in
maritime laws.
The consulting team must have experience in Strategic Planning since from the findings
of their work on the current state of the safety of navigation in the Gulf of Honduras it
will have to include plans of action to create and to support a safer navigation, the
creation of harmonized mechanisms in communion with existing legislations and most of
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all, working mechanisms for the norms established in each of the ports of the program to
be obeyed
3.2. CONSULTING FIRM RESPONSABILITIES:
The consulting firm must be responsible for:
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The compliance of the present terms of reference to the Regional Coordinating
Unit of the Program (RCUP) and its working team, as well as, to the following
institutions GEF/BID/COCATRAM/CCAD.
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It is essential that there is an analysis of all the available information that has
been compiled in previous studies of initiatives that have worked or are working
at the present time in the region, such as the Mesoamerican Arrecifal System
(SAM) among them, including of course, a review of the Analysis of the
preliminary Tran boundary Diagnosis (ADT) and the study of Improvement of
the Environmental Management in the Ports of the Gulf of Honduras (ATN/FG0264-RS).
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The consultant firm will have to carry out at least 1 (one) participatory workshop
in each one of the countries of the project, to validate and to acknowledge the
results of their findings. Also they must give a training seminar and responding
to oil or any poisonous spills exercises in each of the five established ports. All
this under the economic responsibility of the consulting firm. Workshops and
trainings in Belize must be conducted in English.
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Presentation of advance reports, drafts and final format report in two languages,
Spanish and English, electronically and printed (original and copies)
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Give support to the Director of the URCP and its team while the consultancy
lasts. The URCP will be monitoring all activities
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Presentation of maps and nautical charts in the scale of 1:30,000
4. WORKPLACE
The Regional Coordinating Unit of the Program (RCUP) thinks that the working place
must be the City of Puerto Cortes, Honduras, or any other place previously agreed with
the RCUP. The consulting firm, at that time, will have to provide then a suitable and
functional working space in Puerto Cortes, Honduras. Obviously all the information in
general will have to be taken in situ. All of this means that all information, maps, data,
etc, obtained out of the consultancy could be verified by us.
NOTE: All advance reports, rough drafts and final format documents must be
presented/displayed in two languages, English and Spanish as well as workshops. The
workshop and the training for responses to spills must be conducted in the English
language in Belize
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5. SELECTION METHODS
The Coordinating Regional Unit of Program (CRUP) will open an international bidding
invitation to participate for this consulting - All method of selection is based on what has
been established in the respective bases of licitation.
The CRUP will elaborate, accordingly to technical criteria, the complete list of aspiring
companies that fulfill formal conditions to compete for the job and will form a selection
committee to evaluate such companies. This committee will define a short list of
companies with the three best ones to be interviewed, between which one will be selected
and will be contracted.
For the short list the following criteria will be suggested:
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Consulting firm must have in their team expert professionals whose university
education is compatible with the described tasks and activities in the present terms
of reference
Successful technical Experience in environmental management, handling of data
base, navigation, marine waters and coastal ecosystems and environmental law.
Successful technical Experience in data system management.
Proven experience in the elaboration of Strategic operative plans of action.
Experience in information analysis, technical and scientific.
Proven experience working in the area of the project.
5.1. CONTRACT AND HIRING:
The consulting firm will be contracted by means of a professional service contract for
a period of 10 months according to the norms and rules established by the InterAmerican Development Bank in subjects of international licitation. At the end of the
period its performance will be evaluated by the CRUP and respective organisms in
order to validate the fulfillment of the goal pursued according to the contract.
6. LETTER OF INTEREST:
The interested firms will present their letter of interest for the consulting work in
accordance with what is established in the licitation bases. Among other things the
application must be presented on a sealed envelop, with the written legend “Consultancy
Diagnosis of Navigational Risk”. It must have:
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Letter showing the desire and interest to do the consulting job
and authorizing the verification of all information provided,
properly signed, including name, complete mailing address,
telephone number, fax and electronic mail
Curriculum vitae of each member of the consulting team, with
educational background and professional experience included.
Presentation of valued documents which could show the firm
experience (work references, publications, etc.)
Do include in the letter of interest, the firm’s economic
expectation payment.
The information must be sent to:
Programa para la Protección Ambiental y Control de la Contaminación originada
por el Transporte Marítimo en el Golfo de Honduras.
Unidad Cordinadora del Programa. Portón Tres,
Empresa Nacional Portuaria,
Edificio TRAIMAR, Planta baja,
Puerto Cortes, Honduras.
Tel: 665-2343
Atención a: Consultaría sobre Diagnóstico de Riesgos de Navegación.
7. TERMS AND TENTATIVE TIMETABLE:
The term for this consultancy is 10 months. Before the contract’s signature, the
consulting firm will have to present a tentative work chronogram and timetable to be
discussed with the URCP. After approval of the work plan, all activities related to the
preparation and presentation of the advance report will be presented at the end of the first
trimester, the second trimester and in the eighth month. During the following 2 months,
all activities will be centered on the presentation of the final report, which will be
validated by means of participative events of local groups and port authorities. All
observation to rough drafts (as long as they are coherent to the objectives of the
consultancy) will be added to the final report. The last month will be dedicated to the
discussions on rough drafts and of the final report, revisions of the same one,
incorporation of observations and elaboration of Closing report final format. Accordingly
to their interpretation of the reference terms, the consultant firm will be able to propose
an alternative work chronogram. In agreement with the URCP and all involved
institutions the consultant firm will be able to propose modifications to the initial
chronogram, accordingly to conditions found in the field.
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7.1 PAYMENT: The total amount of the contract will be paid as a lump sum. The costs of
transport (aerial and terrestrial), lodging of the consultants, per-diem, insurances, report
elaboration (including rent for the premises used for presentations) etc. are the sole
responsibility of the consulting firm. The payment form will be the following:
PRODUCT
DELIVERY
DATE
%PAYMENT
OBSERVATIONS
Detailed work plan :
Contract
signature
B.1st Advance Report:
End 1est
trimester
20% Navigational risks identified.
C. 2nd Advance Report:
End 2nd
trimester
20%
20% Methodological scheme and work plan.
Chronogram of activities
o
o
o
o
o
D. 3rd Advance Report:
8th month
Proposal for better shipping routes
in the Gulf. (Map presentation and
explanation for proposed routes.)
Design and presented study of a
VTS and Information system by
port.
Presentation of one demonstration
project by port.
Presentation of prevention strategies
for pollution control and prevention
in the Gulf.
Presentation of an integral program
for a safer navigation in Gulf waters.
o
Elaboration of Tran boundary
regional plans of grounding
prevention spills.
o
Presentation of a communication
plan among ports
o
Presentation of manual operative
and technical norms procedures for
the generation of a safer navigation.
o
Presentation of draft reforms for the
institutional, legal, policy, regulatory
and enforcement framework for
navigational safety and pollution
prevention
o
Detailed Profile of grounding areas
in the Gulf of Honduras and its
approaches to ports.
o
Develop 3 information workshops
about findings of the study and 3
spill response trainings.
20%
o
E. Final Report
10th month
20% Approved, printed and electronic format
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8. COORDINATION
The CRUP will be in charge of the technical supervision of the study this has been
established within the logical framework of the project “Environmental Protection and
Control of the Contamination originated by the Maritime Transport in the Gulf of
Honduras”. The CRUP will deliver logistical support along with COCATRAM to the
consulting team.
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