We invite you to attend

Stakeholder conference for HELCOM's Baltic Sea Action Plan. The international seminar is a part of the annual Kotka Maritime Festival (29.7-1.8.2010). The seminar will be held at the Maritime Centre Vellamo, which is an architectonic work of art in the settings of the historical port of Kotka.


Date

Thursday the 29th of July 2010 12.30-15.40
 
Venue Maritime Centre Vellamo, Tornatorintie 99,
Kotka, Finland
 
Cost The seminar is FREE of charge
Registration for this seminar has been closed.
More information: www.merikotka.fi

 
Programme
12.30 - 12.45

Opening address

Magnus Nyström, Senior Adviser
Ministry of the Environment

 
Background
12.45 - 13.00

Evaluation of the traffic increase in the Gulf of Finland during the years 2007-2015 and its effect on maritime safety and ecological risks

Pentti Kujala, Professor, Aalto University/ Kotka Maritime Research Centre

 
13.00 - 13.15

How far we have come in implementing the HELCOM Baltic Sea Action Plan?

Monika Stankiewicz, Professional Secretary, HELCOM Maritime & Response

 
Actions
13.15 - 13.30

Maritime Air Pollution - Amounts, Impacts and Scenarios

Dr. Tapani Stipa, Finnish Meteorological Institute

 
13.30 - 13.45

Hazardous cargoes on board - what to do?

Elisa Mikkolainen, Charting Director, Crystal Pool

 
13.45 - 14.30

Refreshment and networking break

 
14.30 - 14.45

Unwanted guests through ballast water - actions needed

Erkki Leppäkoski, Professor Emeritus,
Environmental and Marine Biology,
Åbo Akademi University

 
14.45 - 15.00

Sewage discharges from shipping - proposed new means

Dr. Jorma Kämäräinen, Senior Maritime Inspector, Marine Environment Protection Unit, Finnish Transport Safety Agency

 
15.00 - 15.15

Maritime safety - experiences of the GOFREP (Gulf of Finland Reporting) -system from the Russian point of view

Evgeny Kuzovinskiy, Head of VTS and Radio Communication Department,
FSUE Rosmorport

 
15.15 - 15.30

Discussion

 
15.30 - 15.40

Conclusions and closing of the seminar

 

IN COOPERATION WITH:

Kotka Maritime Research Centre Tel. +358 5 225 0577
Mussalontie 428 B www.merikotka.fi
FI-48310 Kotka merikotka@merikotka.fi