33rd APEC Transportation Working Group
Tokyo, Japan
October 10-14 2010
Title: Marine Accident
Investigation Project
Presenter’s Name: Charlie Gibbons
Economy: Australia
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Tokyo, Japan, October 10-14 2010
Background
• “Code of the International Standards and
Recommended Practice for a Safety Investigation
into a Marine Casualty or Marine Incident ”
• Known as the Casualty Investigation Code
• The Casualty Investigation Code is mandatory
• Taking effect from 01 January 2010
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APEC Transport Ministers
• APEC Transportation Ministers met in March 2007
in Adelaide Australia
• requested the Transport Working Group to
establish a register of transport safety training
capabilities in member economies to assist with
capacity building
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Tokyo, Japan, October 10-14 2010
MEG consideration
• At the APEC TPT-WG 29 meeting in July 2007,
MEG explored ways of fulfilling the request by
Transport Ministers
• MEG agreed to determine the capacity of
member economies to meet this requirement
through the distribution of a questionnaire
• Project to be lead by Australia on behalf of MEG
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Tokyo, Japan, October 10-14 2010
The questionnaire
• A questionnaire was forwarded to all APEC
member economies
• The questionnaire provided background on the
IMO discussions and introduction of the mandatory
requirement to investigate marine accidents
• The aim was to ascertain the level of knowledge of
the IMO requirements, the technical knowledge
and resource availability to meet the requirements
and the ability of economies to provide assistance
to any economies that may face challenges
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Responses
Responses were received from:
Australia
Peoples Republic of China
Japan
New Zealand
The Philippines
Chinese Taipei
Vietnam
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Canada
Hong Kong, China
Republic of Korea
Peru
Singapore
Thailand
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Tokyo, Japan, October 10-14 2010
Some Conclusions on Capacity and Capability
• Almost all economies are members of the IMO
• Almost all economies are signatories to the
SOLAS Convention
• All economies have their own flag register
• All economies have an agency that investigate
marine casualties and incidents
• Investigation reports are available to the public in a
majority of economies
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Conclusions - continued
• A majority of economies provide reports of
investigations to the IMO
• 8 economies always attend IMO meetings, 4
sometimes and 1 never
• About the same proportions attend MSC meetings
• Just over half the economies are members of the
MAIIF and attend meetings
• 3 economies described their knowledge of the IMO
proposal as limited – all others believed their
knowledge
to
be
comprehensive
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Tokyo, Japan, October 10-14 2010
Conclusions - continued
• 5 economies consider their capability (level of
technical knowledge) to be moderate to meet the
IMO requirements – all others consider their
capability to be high
• 2 economies considers their capacity (level of
resources) to be limited – all others consider their
capacity to be adequate to meet the IMO
requirements
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Tokyo, Japan, October 10-14 2010
Conclusions - continued
• 3 economies have concerns they will not be able
to meet the IMO requirements – all others consider
they can meet the requirements
• 8 economies consider they have the capacity,
capability and ability to assist other economies if
needed
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Tokyo, Japan, October 10-14 2010
Capacity and capability assistance
The following economies have indicated their ability
and willingness to assist building capacity and
capability:
• Australia
• Canada
• People’s Republic of China
• Hong Kong, China
• Japan
• Republic of Korea
• The Philippines
• Thailand
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