Tourist Assistance and Protection in the Port and Destination Port Security Issues

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Tourist Assistance and Protection in the Port and
DestinationPort Security Issues

• Hemispheric Convention on Cruise Tourism and
  Corporate Social Responsibility
• Mar del Plata, Argentina
• April 9, 2015

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USCG International Port Security Program Overview

• The IPS Programs focus is to
• Engage in bilateral and multilateral security
  discussions with trading nations
• Exchange best practices
• Visited more than 1000 ports/facilities in over
  150 countries

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Legal Regime

• U.S. Coast Guard view is that the ISPS Code is a
  minimum security standard.
• Good Baseline. But the ISPS Code by itself has
  limitations. For example
• It does not provide a layered security regime
• No guidelines on a governments responsibilities
  to augment individual ship port facility
  security plans
• No enforcement provisions
• Country must generate the legal requirements to
  implement
• Proposed IMO Guidelines on Maritime Security
  Legislation

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U.S. Requirements for Cruise Ship Terminals

• Screen all persons, baggage, and personal effects
• Check the identification of all persons
• Designate holding, waiting, or embarkation areas
  to segregate screened persons from unscreened
  persons
• Provide additional security personnel to
  designated holding, waiting, or embarkation areas
• Deny passenger access to restricted areas unless
  supervised by facility security personnel.

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New Regulations Proposed

• Standardize screening activities
• Allowing for an appropriate degree of flexibility
• Consistent layer of security at terminals
  throughout the United States.

• https//www.federalregister.gov/regulations/1625-A
  B30/consolidated-cruise-ship-regulations

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Best Practices Observed

• Port Security Committees
• Background Checks for appropriate personnel
• Beginning of season training for all
• Layered Security
• Pubic Access Area
• Additional Security at Shíp -Port Interface

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Best Practices Observed (contd)

• Tender Coordinator aboard Cruise Ship
• CCTV
• However, must manage number and shift length to
  be effective
• Declaration of Security with cruise ship
• Including cruise ship in required exercises

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Best Practices
?Identified more than 100 ?Range from very costly
and sophisticated to inexpensive and
simple ?Posted on USCG website homeport.uscg.mil
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International Port Security Program Personnel
Schinnen
Alameda
DC
Tokyo
Portsmouth
Singapore
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Contact Details

• Captain (retired) Michael Brown
• Chief, International Port Security Evaluation
  Division
• Commandant (CG-PSA-1)
• U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters
• 2703 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave. SE STOP 7501
• Washington, DC 20593-7501
• [phone]
• michael.w.brown_at_uscg.mil

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Questions?