Russian-Swedish Oil Pollution
Response CoursesThe Swedish Maritime Administration signed an agreement with the Admiral Makarov State Maritime Academy for performing courses and seminars to train Russian oil pollution response specialists.These seminars are designed for specialists of port administrations, Federal State Unitary Companies "Rosmorport", EMERCOM, maritime inspections, oil terminals, Environment Protection Administration Committees, oil transportation companies and other organizations.Under this agreement it is planned to conduct 20 various seminars devoted to oil pollution response preparation.
One of the courses devoted to "Oil Spillage from the vessel "Fu Shan Hai" took place on 4-5 October, 2005 in Kaliningrad. In November, 2005 the seminar "Preventing of Oil Pollution From Ships" was conducted in St. Petersburg. The agreement stipulates partial financing of the project from the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The total amount of financing on the part of Sweden s more than 450 000 Euro. The project will also allow the Academy to partly cover the costs for the participation of representatives of state organizations.
