The IOI-Malta Operational Centre of the University of Malta is organising on 26 January 2006 a half-day seminar entitled “Applying new technologies for safety, surveillance and enforcement at sea - A challenge for Malta and the Mediterranean”.

The seminar will be held at the Corinthia San Gorg Hotel, St Julians.

The seminar is being held in conjunction with the first meeting of the MEDOCC Interreg IIIB project on weather-routing in the Mediterranean (WERMED) which targets to develop an experimental system for weather-routing and analyze the potential of the service in the region.

The scope of the seminar is to give an overview on the benefits of technological developments in applications to support the management and monitoring of maritime activities, particularly to improve safety at sea, in surveillance operations, assessments and in the enforcement of maritime laws and regulations.

The seminar will serve to highlight current initiatives as well as provide thoughts on how to follow on the European engagement to establish a sustainable relationship with the environment while improving competitiveness and strengthening the European industry, especially in the maritime sector.

It will also address Malta’s direct and future maritime concerns in its territorial waters such as in relation to timely and accurate tracking and monitoring of ship movements and cargoes, risks from marine oil pollution, and fulfillment of the EU marine policy that is currently taking shape.

For more information email aldo.drago @um .edu.mt or on tel: 21440972.