Efficient, Safe and Sustainable Traffic at Sea

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The overall aim of EfficienSea was to improve maritime safety in the Baltic Sea region through concise and coordinate actions. Partners represented driving forces in the region for the development of improved of safety measures. We all worked for safe, sustainable and efficient traffic at sea and together we developed tools to make it happen. EfficienSea included 16 partners from six countries in the Baltic Sea region and EfficienSea were the largest ever Interreg project, a result of many ambitious partners, strong partnership, and ambitious scope and level of influence. EfficienSea was approved in fall 2008 in the first call of the Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme 2007-2013. The budget was 8 million € and funding was provided by the EU (the European Regional Development Fund), the Norwegian government and partner organizations. EfficienSea falls under the Baltic Sea Region Programme priority Baltic Sea as a common resource, where the objective is to improve the management of Baltic Sea resources in order to achieve a better environmental state. The priority focuses on joint transnational solutions declining the pollution of the Baltic Sea and improving sustainable management of the sea as a common resource. The Lead Partner was the Danish Maritime Authority (Søfartsstyrelsen), DMA. The Lead Partner was liable to the contract with EU. DMA carried out project, financial and communication management on behalf of the project. DMA was also work package leader for WP4 e-Navigation. EfficienSea was a Strategic Project, picked as one of three out of the 24 projects approved in 2009. Three projects were identified as particularly strategically important for the whole Baltic Sea region and strongly supported by national authorities as well as international actors such as HELCOM and EMSA. EfficienSea was appointed as a flagship project within the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region. EfficienSea, aimed at the Baltic Sea becoming a pilot region for e-Navigation by establishing e-Navigation trial zones, contributes to the strategy’s priority area no. 13 on maritime safety and security. The role of EfficienSea in the strategy was that the Baltic Sea should “become a pilot region for e-Navigation”.

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