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Regional Cooperation on Ferry Safety

Bangk ok, 17 th Mar ch 2020

Updates from China Maritime Safety Administration

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• I. Ferry Operation & Ferry Safety

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• I. Ferry Operation & Ferry Safety

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• Reliable
• Affordable
• Efficient
• Efficient
• Affordable
• Reliable

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• 93% casualties resulted by domestic ferry incidents
• Some about 1000 lives lost per year due to domestic

ferry incidents Source: WFSA

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• I. Ferry Operation & Ferry Safety

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• Cause of Ferry incidents
• Human error (75%)
• Adverse weather (53%)
• Overcrowded (29%)
• Navigational errors (22%)
• Fire (11%)

Source: WFSA

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• I. Ferry Operation & Ferry Safety

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• Is the following CAUSE only?
• Human error (75%)
• Adverse weather (53%)
• Overcrowded (29%)
• Navigational errors (22%)
• Fire (11%)

Source: WFSA

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• II. Domestic Ferry Safety Practice and

Experience in China

• Bohai Bay: 40 million pax
• Liaoning: 10 million

pax

• Shandong: 30 million

pax

• Zhejiang: 60 million pax
• Zhujiangkou: 18 million

pax

• Qiongzhou strait: 12

million pax

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• II. Domestic Ferry Safety Practice and

Experience in China

• Problems related Ropax and Fast Ferry in 1990s
• High market demand and fierce competition
• Many ferry shipping companies (mainly SSC)
• Unsatisfied ship condition
• Incompetent crew
• 20 Ropax incidents happened (4 with causalities)

during 1989-2005

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• II. Domestic Ferry Safety Practice and

Experience in China

A serial ferry operation and safety related measures adopted, based on

• Lessons Learn
• IMO relevant instruments
• Other countries’ practice and experience

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• II. Domestic Ferry Safety Practice and

Experience in China

• Establish NSM for ferry company
• Integrated Flag state implementation mechanism
• Ship survey supervision & national ship surveyor exam
• Domestic TSS for ferry
• Safety supervision and management of RoPax
• Improve the SAR capacity
• Old ferry mandatory discarding regulation

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• III. Propose for future works
• Ferry Operation is important
• Ferry Safety is complicated
• Not only the technical factors related ferry itself
• But also the broader, systemic causes located in management
• The value of Regional cooperation

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• III. Propose for future works
• Capacity building program on implementing and

enforcement

• ITCP projects – Seminars and Workshops
• Experience and best practice sharing
• Asia-Pacific voice in international maritime platform, like

IMO and UN ESCAP。

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• III. Propose for future works
• Guidance on the incorporation of Model Regulations
• n Domestic Ferry Safety in domestic law
• Key principles：
• Non-mandatory principle
• Principle of flexibility
• Principle of practicality

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• IV. Reviews on the regional cooperative

activities

• 1st ARF Workshop on Ferry Safety
• held in 12-13th, Dec 2017 in Guangzhou
• Guangzhou Statement

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• IV. Reviews on the regional cooperative

activities

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• 2nd ARF Workshop on Ferry Safety
• held in 26-28th, Nov 2018 in Guangzhou

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• IV. Reviews on the regional cooperative

activities

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• 3rd ARF Workshop on Ferry Safety
• held in 12-14th, Nov 2019 in Guangzhou
• 102 participants from Australia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Fiji,

India, Indonesia, Japan, Kiribati, Lao PDR, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Timor-Leste and Vietnam were represented

• Suggestion on establish the Asia-Pacific Expert Group on Ferry

Safety

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• IV. Reviews on the regional cooperative

activities

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IV.Exchange of Practice during the IMO MSC 100

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• IV. Reviews on the regional cooperative

activities

• Lancang-Mekong River Regional training for inland river safety

management and SAR

• Held in July , 2018 in Guangzhou
• 40 maritime officers from Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand

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• IV. Reviews on the regional cooperative

activities

• Regional training program on non-convention vessel management
• Held in 14 to 23 November, 2018 in Guangzhou
• 29 maritime officers and shipping company staffs from Bangladesh,

Brunei, Cambodia, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam China Maritime Safety Administration

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• IV. Reviews on the regional cooperative

activities

• Held between 18th to 30th Aug,

2019 in Shanghai

• 36 officers and surveyors from

Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, Laos PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Pakistan, the Philippines and Thailand participate in the workshop

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• IV. Reviews on the regional cooperative

activities

• The challenges identified during the workshops and

trainings during these years as follows:

• -lack of domestic legislation experience;
• -lack of experts in both legislative and maritime fields;
• -low-priority on ferry safety due to insufficient government

attention;

• -poor safety awareness among the crew; and
• limited investments.

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• IV. Reviews on the regional cooperative

activities

• Possible measures to tackle the challenges:
• all countries work together to address the challenges to

improve domestic ferry safety.

• organize the experts to develop guidance on the

incorporation of Model Regulations on Domestic Ferry Safety in domestic law.

• help raise awareness in member States
• approaches to help mitigate the shortage of investments.

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• IV. Reviews on the regional cooperative

activities

• Consideration on online training course structure
• the existing IMO provisions relevant to domestic ferry

safety

• the good practices in education and training on domestic

ferry safety, national and regional

• safety of ferries, crew, cargoes and passengers on board
• case studies on ferry accidents as the supplement.
• a non-exhaustive outline for online training course

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Thank you!

XIN Jian (Mr.) Liaison Officer Guangdong Maritime Safety Administration Phone number: +86 20 89098703 Fax number: +86 20 89098701 Email: gdpsc@139.com, xjian@gd.msa.gov.cn

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