What if vessels collided in Tokyo Bay?
Risks at sea are growing. In October, Japanese shipping company K Line carried out the "emergency response exercise” as a part of training for emergency response to major maritime accidents.
The scenario of the exercise developed when an ore carrier chartered by K Line collided with a coastal cargo carrier when it was transiting in Tokyo Bay.
The carrier executed a series of emergency response process by setting up crisis-management headquarters upon receiving an incident report, establishing communication channels with the ship owner and the ship management company and conducting a mock press conference at the end of the exercise.
Online tools were employed on the assumption that many concerned parties were working remotely. Many questions were raised by the media reporters that made the event more realistic and momentous. K Line was satisfied with its work on awareness building activities like the “safety campaign”. (sh)