Korea Coast Guard (KCG), selected in a project to support public data by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety (MOIS), plans to disclose data in the maritime safety sector this year.
KCG has data in book format so they aren’t easy to be utilized. About 3,000 cases of information, including for coastal safety dangers and the location of safety management facilities will be converted into digital data whose date sets will be built and disclosed to the public.
The step will not only enable the prevention of coastal accidents, but will also likely spur the utilization of data in the maritime leisure industry for things like fishing and coastal experience activities.
KCG plans to divulge the related data on the KCG’s website (kcg.go.kr) and the public data portal (data.go.kr) by December.
A KCG official said, “Diverse, quality maritime safety data will be disclosed on a continuous basis to support related companies and KCG will do its utmost to establish maritime safety policies corresponding to people’s needs by ramping up data-based activities to prevent accidents.”
KCG, Environment Ministry Step Up Cooperation to Cope with Maritime Chemical Accidents
Korea Coast Guard (KCG) and the Ministry of Environment renewed an MOU on cooperation to cope with maritime harmful chemicals and inland water oil spill accidents for three years from June 7.
Under the agreement, both sides will cooperate on areas such as information exchange and technology research, education and training against accidents, dispatching experts and offering experts’ counseling to cope with accidents and jointly utilizing equipment and materials to brace for accidents.
KCG and MOE have so far maintained accident response collaboration regimes through the private and public sectors’ joint training exercises to cope with maritime chemical accidents.
The Joint Chemical Anti-Disaster Center plans to strengthen regimes to cope with maritime chemical accidents by renewing an MOU the center signed with maritime police stations in Ulsan, Yeosu, Taean and Pyeongtaek, in which large amounts of chemical shipments are transported. The agreement was signed in July 2015 as a follow-up step of the deal between KCG and MOE.
Jo Hyun-jin, director-general in charge of maritime pollution prevention at KCG, said, “Under the renewal of the MOU, both government agencies will continue to ramp up collaboration so they can demonstrate synergetic effects of their own capabilities to cope with chemical substance and oil spill accidents.”
KCG Cracks Down on Ships Violating Regulations on Ship Traffic Control
KCG plans to crack down on ships found to have violated regulations on ship traffic control to prevent maritime accidents from June 11 through June 24.
Figures, released by Korea Maritime Safety Tribunal, showed that maritime accidents, caused by faults of ship operators, accounted for about 20 percent of the total accidents that took place for the recent five years.
The targets of the intensive crackdowns include whether ships violate the reporting of their entry in the restricted areas, failure in listening to traffic communication, violating of speed limits on designated routes and drunken operating education for the cultivation of experts.
KCG Commissioner General Jeong Meets with ICJ Registrar Gautier
KCG Commissioner General Jeong Bong-hoon met with Philippe Gautier, registrar of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at the former’s office on June 2.
He came here at the invitation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to build a networking with an international law expert and ramp up capabilities on the international laws.
KCG introduced its major responsibilities, including protecting of sovereignty in the sea to ICJ Registrar Gautier, who toured sites such as special security groups of the five islands of the West Sea and Incheon Port Vessel Traffic Service Center.
In his meeting with ICJ Registrar Gautier, KCG Commissioner General Jeong said, “KCG resolves maritime conflicts with neighboring countries in a peaceful and wise fashion and make diverse efforts through consultation of pending issues with Korean and foreign expertise groups to protect maritime security sovereignty and ramp up capabilities on the international maritime laws.”
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