Development of Maritime Safety in the Small Ports in the Baltic Sea Region

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A Finland - Estonia - Latvia - Sweden (Central Baltic)

Date of latest update: 2023-11-11

Description

Description (EN):

Increasing number of yachts and pleasure boats in the Baltic Sea region is the growing safety challenge for rescue organisations and ports. Yacht clubs and different unions of boat owners from Nordic countries are interested in visiting Estonia, but lack of information about small ports and safety services doesn`t give them reliability for sailing to Estonia. Active cooperation between Estonian and Åland maritime rescue organisations started few years ago and both have participated in different cooperation activities in International Maritime Rescue Federation. The project will develop cooperation between Estonian islands Hiiumaa, Saaremaa, Muhu, Kihnu 6 small ports and Åland`s islands 3 ports and pilot voluntary maritime rescue organisations to use international experience and work out and implement higher safety standards in the ports for tourists and local habitants. The project will organise three different modules of activities that will be organised by joint working groups. The first module is connected to mapping the current safety situation in the pilot small ports and cooperation with voluntary maritime rescue organisations and creation of development plans with necessary investments. The second module is training of volunteers, small port’s staff and local service providers in the pilot ports to have the necessary skills for information and preventive activities and for participation in rescue operations. The third one is research about international experience in using safety equipment and activities of small ports and basic safety modelling standards for small ports and working out the specific basic safety quality mark and certificate. It needs large-scale cooperation between different interest groups and is possible only based on the best international practice. The project will also organise marketing activities in the small ports. Higher standards and safety quality mark will give reliability for sailors and will attract more visitors to the region.

Achievements (EN):

MASAPO - Increased maritime safety in small ports: MASAPO raised maritime safety in coastal areas and small ports. The targeted areas include western Estonia and the Åland archipelago. Increased maritime safety was achieved through training and increased capacity of voluntary maritime rescue organisations. Additionally, infrastructure development took place and rescue equipment (rescue boats, personal safety equipment and so on) was purchased in selected small ports. The trainings and rescue exercises were organised together by project partners. The infrastructure development and purchases supported the training and helped achieve long-term commitment to be part of voluntary marine rescue. In total, conditions, rescue capacity and service level was improved in eight small ports on Estonian islands (Kõrgessaare, Kärdla, Lõunaranna, Kuressaare, Soela, Suaru ) and on Åland islands (Rödhamn, Kasterholm). To make the developed small ports more accessible, the project published an application that allows to ‘View your marinas of interest virtually in beautiful 360°-panoramas’. The app is available in Google Play Store.

Website: http://centralbaltic.eu/

Expected Results (EN): R3.2. Share of Central Baltic small ports with good services

Expected Outputs (EN):

Pilot small ports in Estonian islands (Kõrgessaare, Kärdla, Lõunaranna, Mõntu, Soela, Kihnu Suaru) and Ålands islands (Rödhamn, Östrahamn, Käringsund) will have tight cooperation with 4 local voluntary maritime rescue organisations (Hiiumaa, Saaremaa, Muhu and Kihnu) as members of Estonian Voluntary Maritime Rescue Organisation and stations of Åland island Lifeboat Society. These organisations will have well trained personnel and needed equipment for quick response in emergency situation and skills to organise preventive activities for visitors and local people in small ports and the ports will have standardised safety equipment. Partners will have jointly designed basic safety quality sign and pilot small ports will develop their safety services to have this quality sign. The project small ports will be linked into international small ports network. It will raise the level of services of the small ports and increase the number of visitors on the islands.

Thematic information

Tourism Infrastructure Cooperation between emergency services

Specific Objective: Improved services of existing small ports to improve local and regional mobility and contribute to tourism development

Thematic Objective: (07) promoting sustainable transport and removing bottlenecks in key network infrastructures by:

Investment Priority: (07c) developing and improving environmentally-friendly (including low-noise) and low-carbon transport systems, including inland waterways and maritime transport, ports, multimodal links and airport infrastructure, in order to promote sustainable regional and local mobility

Partners (2)

Lead Partner: Hiiu Vallavalitsus

Department: not relevant

Address: Keskväljak 5a, 92413 Kärdla, Estonia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.hiiuvald.ee

Total budget: EUR 699 951.71

ERDF budget: EUR 594 958.95

Alands Sjöräddningssällskap r.f

Name: Alands Sjöräddningssällskap r.f

Department: not relevant

Address: Fiskehamnsvägen 22, 22100 Mariehamn, Finland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.sjoraddningen.ax

Total budget: EUR 478 184.00

ERDF budget: EUR 358 638.00

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Aland island Lifeboat Society

Development of Maritime Safety in the Small Ports in the Baltic Sea Region

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Hiiu Municipality

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Summary

Project name (EN): Development of Maritime Safety in the Small Ports in the Baltic Sea Region

Project acronym: MASAPO

Project start date: 2015-10-01

Project end date: 2018-03-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 1 178 135.71

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 953 596.95

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 953 596.95.

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2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A Finland - Estonia - Latvia - Sweden (Central Baltic)

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2023-11-11

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

137 / 137 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

663 / 663 (100%)

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Information provided by the Programme. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://centralbaltic.eu/), or a website directly linked from it, on 2021-11-08, 2023-01-12 and 2024-03-08.

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