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6.1.1 MARINE eNAVIGATION
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4. There are three 'lines of defence' against shipping accidents and
ship-source marine pollution:
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prevention of incidents and accidents,
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mitigation of incidents and accidents through emergency
intervention, and
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consequence management (eg. oil spill clean-up).
It hardly needs stating that
prevention is to be preferred.
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5. While some marine accidents result from technical failures of one
kind or another (eg. structural, engine or steering failure), many are
caused by navigational errors. Of course, navigational errors have
diverse causes. But they have a common defining feature: failure to
maintain a safe course.
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6. Every year, considerable sums of money are expended by ship
owners and operators, on top of very substantial resources deployed
by regulators (flag and coastal states, individually or collectively) in
support of our shared objectives of "safer ships and cleaner seas".
It follows from what has been said in the previous paragraphs that
one of our highest priorities in allocating these resources should be
to reduce navigational errors - from whatever cause.
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7. Today we face a critical window of opportunity to improve
navigational safety in coastal and international waters, with
important opportunities for synergy between safety and security.
The technology to enable us to do this exists now in various
'formats', though there is a need for further development and
standardisation. The real constraints on progress are largely
structural and attitudinal, and there is a lack of market confidence
to develop and make available the necessary components of e-
Navigation in the absence of a clear, global commitment to deliver
it.
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