Disaster Management

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Disaster Management 

Gujarat Maritime Board has prepared Disaster Management Plan for all ports of Gujarat ports. Each port is also having its own customised Disaster Management Plan to cope against the Disaster arising out of natural calamities.

Disaster is defined as an undesirable occurrence of events of such magnitude that adversely affects Ports activities. Ports handle cargoes of various commodities including highly volatile and flammable nature of solid, liquid and gaseous petroleum products. Inspite of the fact that every port is expected to take adequate steps to assess, minimize and wherever possible eliminate risks, accidents and fire etc. still natural calamity may still occur. Proper planning can only mitigate them, and to a large extend losses in terms of human lives, plant/port assets, environmental damage and costs to resume working can never be minimised.

Gujarat Maritime Board is manning Control room for 24 hrs a day, from 1st May to 30 November. 

(A)             Major expected Disasters in the ports of Gujarat. 

1. Cyclone

2. Fire

3. Hazardous cargo handling

4. Earthquake

(B)       Main component of Disaster Management Plan. 

1. Pre Disaster plan

2. On Disaster plan 

3. Post Disaster plan 

(B)        Key Authorities - Responsible Officers to monitor disaster at Head Office.

The Head of department, Vice Chairman & Chief Executive Officer is the main responsible authority.

1. Officer on Special Duty

2. Chief Engineer

3. Chief Nautical Officer

(C)             Key Authorities - Responsible Officers to monitor disaster at local Ports.

1. Port officer – Key person

2. Respective Engineers

3.  Assit. Port Officer or Traffic Officer 

(D)             Mode of Communications.

1. HF & VHF (Wireless network)

2. Telephone line

3. Inmarsat telephone installed at following ports

• OKHA

• JAKHAU

• VERAVAL

• PORBANDAR

(E)            Important information for Disaster monitoring system 

1. Important Telephone Nos. of control room of GMB

2. Wireless network system of GMB

3. Details of (1) Pre disaster (2) On disaster (3) Post disaster of GMB

4. Information of warning Signals for cyclone.

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