Carrying out wharf pollution prevention emergency drill

20/Feb/2021

The Xingang Maritime Safety Administration have a exercise which was simulated a large area of unidentified oil pollution in the front waters of the dock. Relevant enterprises and competent authorities promptly activated emergency plans, deployed pollution cleaning equipment and personnel, and carried out cleanup in accordance with the emergency response procedures for the prevention and control of marine environment pollution by ships and related operations at the dock.Dock workers used materials such as oil absorbent pads and sawdust to remove oil from the front of the dock and nearby water surfaces, and the cleaning ships arranged oil booms to carry out oil spill recovery. Through exercises, they can effectively improve the emergency preparedness and disposal capabilities of the docks in their jurisdictions. The Xingang Maritime Safety Administration promptly summarized the hidden dangers exposed in the investigation and emergency drills, established the "Pollution Prevention and Control Special Action Problem Hidden Danger List", and put forward rectification suggestions for relevant enterprises in the jurisdiction, and supervised the implementation in the form of a "rectification measure list",strengthened the construction of pollution prevention and control capacity in the jurisdiction.



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