New connection now bridges EMSA’s EMCIP and IMO’s GISIS
Since 17 June 2011, EU countries have been uploading marine casualty data to the European Marine Casualty Information Platform, EMCIP, to improve data collection and analysis.
At the same time, at international level, countries are required to send accident investigation data and reports to the IMO’s Global Integrated Shipping Information System, GISIS.
To avoid the duplication of work entailed in reporting casualty data to two different systems, EU countries proposed the development of a mechanism to enable the mandatory accident investigation data required by GISIS to be transferred to the IMO by EMCIP.
This mechanism was developed at EMSA and, since April, data has been transferred automatically from EMCIP to GISIS. EU countries are now able to report to GISIS using EMCIP, without any additional workload
Source: EMSA
