Oil spill response exercise off Rostock

On Thursday 13, 2013

Twenty-seven oil response ships from Denmark, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia and Sweden will train next week the response to a major oil spill under the direction of theCentral Command for Maritime Emergencies (CCME), Germany.

HELCOM BALEX DELTA exercise takes place off the coast of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and is an annual exercise under the umbrella ofHELCOM.

The aim of this exercise is to test the alarm procedure, the response capability, and the response time of the HELCOM Contracting Parties, including all the nine coastal Baltic States and the EU.

The staff functions and the cooperation between combating units will be tested and practised. In addition, the exercise will focus on communication between the involved units and on the interaction between offshore response units and shoreline cleanup units.

Date:Thursday 13 June, 2013

Place: Entrance Marinestützpunkt Hohe Düne, Rostock, Germany

Time: 7:15 hrs (Central European Summer Time, UTC + 2 hrs)

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Source: HELCOM