Citation
Glass, J. (1999), "Emergency spill response services to work together", Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. 8 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/dpm.1999.07308aab.007
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 1999, MCB UP Limited
Emergency spill response services to work together
Emergency spill response services to work together
US-based Marine Response Alliance and the Marine Spill Response Corporation have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to co-ordinate emergency spill response services for shipowners, operators and shipmanagers that are clients of both firms.
Marine Spill Response Corp executive vice-president Don Toenshoff Jr explained: "Marine Response Alliance's capabilities are presently incorporated into the (US Oil Pollution Act of 1990-required) Vessel Response Plans of many of (our) existing customers. This agreement will provide the means for enhanced pre-planned opportunities to provide potential synergies for these mutual customers during response to a spill, or threatened spill".
Nationwide
Customers may now, for example, access the nationwide cache of pumping systems, trained personnel, tugs, petroleum barges, and salvage vessels available through the two firms' total of 17 dedicated ocean-certified barges to supplement and support emergency lightering operations when there is a threat of an oil spill.
Support resources
"The support resources used by both a salvor and an oil spill response contractor are often drawn from the same resource pool", said Marine Response Alliance director David Usher.
His alliance provides contractual emergency towing, fendering, lightering, salvage and fire-fighting services along the US Atlantic, Pacific Gulf of Mexico, and Alaskan coasts, the Great Lakes, Hawaii, and the Caribbean by acting as a central control for the expertise and equipment of Crowley Marine Services and Marine Pollution Control, and associated firms such as Moran Services Corp and Williams Fire and Hazard Control.
Marine Spill Response provides shallow water, onshore, inshore and offshore oil spill response services to shipowners and shore-based facilities along the US Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico and Pacific coasts, Hawaii, and the Caribbean.
Joel Glass
(Lloyd's Casualty Week, Vol. 311 No. 13, March 27 1998.)