Previous publications of the quarterly newsletters have been archived and be found in the links included. 

The 47th ASEAN Maritime Transport Working Group (MTWG) Meeting was held in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam, from 17-18 Sep.

GISEA was invited to observe the 13th Thailand Oil and Chemical  Response Exercise (TOC-EX 13) held in Bangkok on 25-26 Jul 2024.

At the invite of the Philippine Coast Guard, GISEA observed the conduct of MARPOLEX 2024 and its associated activities, held in Bacolod City from 24-28 Jun. 

The 46th ASEAN Maritime Transport Working Group (MTWG) Meeting was held in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam, from 6-8 May.

The workshop, held from 30 Oct - 2 Nov, was organised to reinvigorate the effort to operationalise the ASEAN MoU and implement the ROSCP.

A workshop to further the work to develop Cambodia's national oil spill contingency plan took place in Phnom Penh between 24-26 Oct. The workshop was organised under the under the auspices of GISEA, and assisted by the IMO through the Integrated Technical Cooperation Programme (ITCP).

The 45th ASEAN Maritime Transport Working Group (MTWG) Meeting was held in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam, from 17-19 Oct.

The 'Remote Symposium on Oil Spill Damages and Claims' was held on 27 Sep to mark PCG's 122nd anniversary.

Spillcon is the Asia-Pacific oil spill conference, held every three years as part of the tri-conference circuit which includes Interspill in Europe and the International Oil Spill Conference, IOSC, in USA. The 2023 conference was held in Brisbane, from 11-15 Sep.

GISEA supported the Viet Nam Maritime Administration (Vinamarine) in the conduct of a national workshop on contingency planning, between 22 and 25 Aug. 

GISEA participated in 14th CF, held in Singapore on 31 Jul - 1 Aug.

At the invite of the Directorate-General of Sea Transportation (DGST), GISEA observed the proceedings of the conference held on 25-26 Jul.

GISEA was invited to observe the 12th Thailand Oil and Chemical  Response Exercise (TOC-EX 12) held in Bangkok on 18-19 Jul 2023. TOC-EX 12 follows the previous series of 'Thailand Oil Spill Response Exercise (TOREX)' which was disrupted by the COVID-19 Pandemic. 

GISEA, along with oil spill response industry representatives from OSRL and ITOPF, supported the Maritime and Port Authority of Brunei Darusslam (MPABD) in the conduct of a national workshop on contingency planning between 16 and 18 May.

The 44th ASEAN Maritime Transport Working Group (MTWG) Meeting was held in Danag City, Viet Nam, from 9-11 May.

The remote legal assistance to participating ASEAN Member States is now complete. 

Between 9 and 11 Nov, a joint IOPC Funds-IMO Workshop on Incident Response and Costs Recovery was successfully delivered through the regional platform offered by GISEA, hosted by the Maritime and Port Authority (MPA) of Singapore.

At the invite of the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG), GISEA observed the conduct of National MARPOLEX 2022 and its associated activities, held in Manila from 24-27 Oct. 

At the invite of Maritime and Port Authority (MPA) of Singapore, GISEA observed the conduct of a table-top discussion with industry stakeholders at the Port Operations Control Centre (POCC) on 3 Oct.

At the invite of PEMSEA, GISEA supported the delivery of a training workshop for the Littoral States of Cambodia, Thailand and Viet Nam on 6 Oct. GISEA also participated in the 15th Annual National Contact Points Meeting, held in tandem on 7 Oct.

With the support of ITOPF and the Marine Department of Thailand, GISEA hosted a webinar on oil spill preparedness and response on 28 Sep, focused on lessons learnt from the the 'Wakashio' and 'X-press Pearl' incidents. 

The 43rd ASEAN Maritime Transport Working Group (MTWG) Meeting was held in Nha Trang, Viet Nam, from 20-22 Sep; this was the first in-person gathering of the MTWG since 2019.

GISEA participated in the regional exchange held under the auspices of the ATSEA-2 Program, and hosted by OSRL in Singapore from 23-25 Aug.  

GISEA participated in 13th CF, held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 18-19 Jul.  

Held in Amsterdam at the RAI Exhibition and Convention Centre from 21-23 Jun, Interspill 2022 lists among the first face-to-face events for the oil spill industry.

At the invite of the Directorate General of Directorate General of Sea Transportation (DGST)-Sea and Coast Guard, Indonesia, GISEA observed the conduct of MARPOLEX 2022 and its associated activities, held in Makassar City from 24-27 May. 

GISEA supported the National Directorate of Maritime Transport, Timor-Leste, in the conduct of a national OPRC workshop from 9 - 13 May. 

Following the kick-off meeting and workshop held in October 2021, we have completed the engagement with the respective agencies/ administrations from the participating ASEAN Member States to further study their respective national legislative framework and clarify administrative arrangements.

GISEA supported the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) in the conduct of a national workshop on incident management, between 14 and 16 Mar. 

The 42nd ASEAN Maritime Transport Working Group (MTWG) Meeting was held virtually on 9-10 Mar.

The event, held remotely on 16 Nov, sought to address policy, economic and technological perspectives on the protection of the marine environment, both internationally and in the national context. It was attended by participants from across a spectrum of ministries and agencies with responsibilities to manage marine pollution. 

Following delays due to number of administrative challenges, the 'Remote Legal Assistance to ASEAN Member States on the Effective Implementation of IMO Conventions Relating to Oil Pollution and Liability and Compensation' was launched with a kick-off meeting and workshop on 20 Oct. 

The 41st ASEAN Maritime Transport Working Group (MTWG) Meeting was held virtually on 4 Oct. 

Working with the Gulf of Thailand Cooperation and Oil Spill Response Limited (OSRL), GISEA jointly delivered the workshop, held remotely on 16-17 Sep.

Working with the PEMSEA Resource Facility, GISEA jointly delivered the remote workshop with Oil Spill Response Limited (OSRL) on 9 Sep, to an audience comprising participants from countries in the Gulf of Thailand Cooperation. 

At the invite of the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG), GISEA observed the proceedings of the conference, which saw participation from the coast guard units of Indonesia, the Philippines and Japan. The remote meeting was hosted by PCG on 30 Jun. 

The International Oil Spill Conference (IOSC) is part of a triennial series of events which include Interspill in Europe and Spillcon in Asia-Pacific. Initially scheduled to be held in 2020, it was postponed, owing to restrictions which resulted from the COVID-19 Pandemic, and held as a fully virtual conference on May 10-14.

At the invite of PEMSEA, GISEA participated in the 14th Annual National Contact Points Meeting on 23 Apr.

The event, held face-to-face and online on 8 Mar, was attended by approximately 60 participants from the Ministry of Transportation, and other key ministries and agencies assigned with responsibilities to manage oil pollution. 

GISEA recently attended the 40th ASEAN Maritime Transport Working Group (MTWG) Meeting held virtually, from 9-10 Mar.

The 39th ASEAN Maritime Transport Working Group (MTWG) Meeting was held virtually, on 27 Aug. Updates on GISEA activities were provided by the IMO. 

At the invite of PEMSEA, GISEA supported the delivery of a training workshop for the Littoral States of Cambodia, Thailand and Viet Nam on 4-5 Feb. GISEA also participated in the 13th Annual National Contact Points Meeting, held in tandem, on 6 Feb.

GISEA supported the Maritime Administration (VINAMARINE) in the conduct of a national workshop on contingency planning, between 26 and 29 Nov. 

Organised by the Myanmar Nautical Association (MNA), Maritime Conference Myanmar (MCM) 2019, the second in the series, was held in Yangon, on  6-7 Nov 2019, in conjunction with two parallel exhibition and seminars - Myanmar Marine Expo (MYANMEX) 2019 and Oil & Gas Myanmar (OGAM) 2019.

Organised by the Maritime and Port Authority (MPA) of Singapore, the biennial International Chemical and Oil Pollution Conference and Exhibition (ICOPCE) is the region’s forum which focuses on regulatory developments in marine pollution response, innovation and digitisation trends in the industry, and incident management strategy. The 2019 conference was held on 22-23 Oct. 

GISEA participated in 12th CF and 44th TTEG Meeting, held in Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia, from 30 Sep to 3 Oct. 

GISEA supported the ongoing effort by the Marine Department to update the National Oil Spill Contingency Plan (NOSCP) of Thailand, in the conduct of a national workshop between 24 and 27 Sep. 

The Sub-regional 'Train-the-Trainer' workshop on the IMO OPRC Model Training Courses took place in Manilla, from 17 to 20 Sep.

The 38th ASEAN Maritime Transport Working Group (MTWG) Meeting was held in Singapore, from 21 - 23 Aug. Updates on GISEA activities were provided by the IMO. 

The workshop was held at the Maritime Transport Training Institute (MATRAIN) in Port Klang, Malaysia, from 19-21 Aug. This was immediately followed by the first meeting of the ROSCP Committee on 22 Aug.  

GISEA supported the Department of Marine Administration (DMA) in the conduct of a workshop on environmental sensitivity mapping, on 14 and 15 Aug. 

GISEA supported the Merchant Marine Department in the conduct of a national workshop on contingency planning, between 6 and 9 Aug. This was the second workshop conducted under the auspices of GISEA, assisted by the IMO through the Integrated Technical Cooperation Programme (ITCP), and ITOPF.

GISEA was invited to observe the table-top component of the 11th Thailand Oil Spill Response Exercise (TOREX 11) held in Bangkok, from 10-12 Jul 2019. TOREX 11 is part of the National Crisis Management Exercise, CMEX 19.

At the invite of the Philippine Coast Guard, GISEA observed the conduct of MARPOLEX 2019, and its associated activities, held in Davao, from 1 - 5 Jul. GISEA also supported the delivery of a seminar encompassing topics on shoreline assessment, and liability and compensation.

GISEA supported the Department of Marine Administration (DMA) in the conduct of a series of visits  to selected ports in Yangon and the Thilawa Special Economic Zone, between 28 and 30 May.

Spillcon is the Asia-Pacific oil spill conference, held every three years as part of the tri-conference circuit which includes Interspill in Europe and the International Oil Spill Conference, IOSC, in USA. The 2019 conference was held in Perth, from 20-24 May.

The Women in Maritime Associations (WIMA) Asia regional conference on Empowering Women in Maritime "Bridging the Gap" was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 9 to 11 Apr 2019.

GISEA recently attended the 37th ASEAN Maritime Transport Working Group (MTWG) Meeting held in Singapore, from 5 - 7 Mar 2019 

The East Asian Seas Congress hosted by Partnerships in Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia (PEMSEA) was held from 27-30 November 2018 in Iloilo Philippines. 

GISEA supports the Department of Marine Administration (DMA) in their national capacity building activities for finalisation of the National Contingency Plan for Marine Environment (NCP).

The Department of Marine Administration (DMA), with support from IMO, GI SEA and the Norwegian Coast Guard (NCA) organised an OPRC IMO L3 training from 12-14th November 2018 at Yangon, Myanmar. 

GISEA supported the Philippines Coast Guard (PCG) on their National Workshop held from 6-8th November 2018 in Manila, Philippines.

GISEA observed the annual Joint Oil Spill Exercise (JOSE) 2018, held on 5th October 2018. 

GISEA presented on oil spill preparedness activities in ASEAN in 2018 under at the 11th Co-operation Forum held in Singapore from 24-25th September 2018.

The GISEA Project is currently undertaking a planning exercise in order to target its resources more effectively though a series of preparedness missions to each country in the Southeast Asia region. 

The Myanmar National Task Force (NTF) continues the development work of the National Oil Spill Contingency Plan at the 8th Meeting held on August 2018.

GISEA recently attended the 36th ASEAN Maritime Transport Working Group (MTWG) Meeting held in Singapore from 14th-16th August 2018.

Ministry of Transport, Directorate General of Sea Transportation hosted the 13th National Marine Pollution Exercise in Surabaya, Indonesia from 25-26 July 2018. 

IMO with support from Government of Malaysia and the Marine Department of Malaysia organised a Workshop on ASEAN Regional Oil Spill Contingency Plan held from 2-6th July 2018 in Selangor, Malaysia. 

GISEA continues support to Myanmar National Task Force (NTF) for Development of their National Oil Spill Contingency Plan throughout 2018. The 6th Meeting was conducted in Jun 2018.

The GISEA Project is currently undertaking a planning exercise in order to target its resources more effectively though a series of preparedness missions to each country in the Southeast Asia region. 

GISEA was invited as an observer to the 10th Thailand Oil Spill Response Exercise held in Chonburi, Thailand from 23-25 May 2018. Thailand. This event is conducted annually lead by the Marine Department with support with support from Ministry of Transport, Royal Thai Navy, Oil Industry Environmental Safety Group Association (IESG), Pollution Control Department (PCD) and Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Department Agency (GISTDA) in accordance to the requirement of their National Plan.

GISEA continues support to Myanmar National Task Force (NTF) for Development of their National Oil Spill Contingency Plan throughout 2018. The 6th Meeting was held on April 2018.

GISEA attends the 35th ASEAN Maritime Transport Working Group (MTWG) Meeting held from the 27th of February to 1st of March, 2018 in Singapore.

GISEA continues support to Myanmar National Task Force (NTF) for Development of their National Oil Spill Contingency Plan (NCP) throughout 2018. The 5th Meeting was conducted in February 2018.

GISEA co-organised the sub-regional workshop on Developing the Sub-Regional Oil Spill Contingency Plan and Guidelines on the Use of Chemical Dispersants in the Gulf of Thailand. The workshop was held on November 13-15, 2017 at  Danang, Vietnam.

The GISEA Project is currently undertaking a planning exercise in order to target its resources more effectively though a series of preparedness missions to each country in the Southeast Asia region. 

With support from the Directorate General of Sea Transportation (DGST) of Indonesia, the preparedness mission to Indonesia was conducted on 30th October 2017 to meet various stakeholders to discuss about the preparedness status in the country. 

The objective of these missions is to determine how the Project might best assist the national, sub-regional and regional efforts to prepare for and respond to spills more effectively.

The GISEA Project is currently undertaking a planning exercise in order to target its resources more effectively though a series of preparedness missions to each country in the Southeast Asia region. 

The preparedness missions starts off with Thailand on 16th October 2017 to meet stakeholders with support from local host Marine Department of Thailand. 

The objective of these missions is to determine how the Project might best assist the national, sub-regional and regional efforts to prepare for and respond to spills more effectively.

IMO and GISEA, together with the Philippines Coast Guard (PCG) organised the National Oil Spill Contingency Planning Workshop from 4 to 6 October 2017 at Manila, Philippines.

GISEA attended the 34th ASEAN Maritime Transport Working Group (MTWG) Meeting that was held from the 19th to 21st of September in Bohol, Philippines.

GISEA is pleased to be the dialogue partner to the National Task Force for development of the Myanmar National Oil Spill Contingency Plan.

The Ministry of Transport (MoT) and Marine Department (MARDEP) of Malaysia hosted the ASEAN Regional IMO OPRC Level 3 Workshop. The 5-day Workshop (July 30 - August 4) was held at the MATRAIN facility of the Marine Department in Klang, Malaysia with field visits to the PIMMAG (Petroleum Industry of Malaysia Mutual Aid Group) Base in Port Dickson and at Senai Airport in Johor where the participants viewed the OSRL (Oil Spill Response Limited) C-130 dispersant spray aircraft. The Workshop was facilitated by experts from PIMMAG. 

The triennial IOSC contributes to and enables a culture of preparedness within the oil spill response community, the broader field of incident management, and society as a whole.  The 2017 IOSC was held in Long Beach, California from May 15-18, 2017. 

GISEA project manager presented the paper titled "THE INCOMING REGIONAL RESPONSE REGIME IN ASEAN".  Full article is available from the proceeding links provided below.

GISEA was invited by the Department of Marine Administration (DMA) of the government of Myanmar to be an observer in the recently concluded Yangon River Oil Spill Contingency Plan (YROSCP) Tabletop Exercise in Yangon.

The International Chemical and Oil Pollution Conference and Exhibition (ICOPCE) was held at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore from 25-28th April 2017.  Held in conjunction with Singapore Maritime Week 2017, the theme of the conference was "Keeping Pact with A New Era in Marine Environment Protection".

GISEA Project Manager presented about the GISEA programme in the conference.

PEMSEA organised the Training Workshop on Developing the Subregional Oil Spil Contingency Plan and Guidelines in the Use of Chemical Dispersants in the Gulf of Thailand held from 22-24th November 2016 in Bangkok, Thailand. GISEA supported by providing technical experts on the relevant topics. 

The 32nd Maritime Transport Working Group (MTWG) meeting was held on 18-20th October 2016 at Bohol, Philippines. 

GISEA was invited to attend the 9th Co-operative Forum held on the 26th-27th September 2016 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The forum was held in conjunction with the 41st Tripartite Technical Experts Group meeting for Straits of Malacca and Singapore. 

The Philippine Coast Guard organised the National Oil Spill Response Planning Workshop in Manilla from 28 to 29 July 2016. GISEA through IPIECA supported PCG in this workshop. 

International Maritime Organisation (IMO) and Department of Marine Administration (DMA) of Myanmar, with the cooperation from The International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation Limited (ITOPF) organised a workshop from 25 to 29 April 2016 to initiate the development of a draft Oil Spill Contingency Plan for the Yangon River Area and a National Oil Spill Contingency Plan for Myanmar. 

GISEA attended the 31st ASEAN Maritime Transport Working Group (MTWG) meeting held on 6-8 April 2016 at Boracay, Philippines. 

This workshop was held on 29 September – 2 October 2015, hosted by the Maritime and Port Authority Academy and Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs, co-organized by IMO and the Government of Singapore (represented by the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore Academy) and the Technical Cooperation Directorate of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, under the Singapore-IMO Third Country Training Programme.

GISEA organised a seminar on National Oil Spill Contingency Planning at Phnom Penh, Cambodia on 15 to 19 June 2015.

The triennial Interspill Conference was held at Amsterdam from 23-26th March 2015. GISEA project manager presented a paper entitled "Global Initiative for Southeast Asia: The Journey Towards Regional Cooperation in Oil Spill Preparedness and Response in ASEAN". GISEA's paper is available at the link below.

GISEA attends the 29th Maritime Transport Working Group (MTWG) Meeting held on 10-13th February 2015 at Sihanoukville, Cambodia. The meeting was hosted by the Ministry of Public Works and Transport of Cambodia.

This event was held on 17th to 19th December 2014 hosted by Marine Department and Ministry of Transport, Malaysia. The event was organised by the Global Initiative of Southeast Asia (GISEA) and the IMO (International Maritime Organization), in collaboration with the Marine Department of Malaysia. 

GISEA, in collaboration with Partnerships in Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia (PEMSEA) with Vietnam National Southern Oil Spill Response Centre (NASOS) under direction from Vietnam National Committee for Search and Rescue (VINASARCOM) organised Gulf Of Thailand Sub-regional Workshop On Incident Management Systems & Managing Major Transboundary Incidents at Vung Tau, Vietnam on  3rd and 4th December 2014.

GISEA and the IMO organised the National Workshop for the revision and update of the National Oil Spill contingency Plan of the Philippines in collaboration with the Philippines Coast Guard (PCG) from 30 September to 1 October 2014.

GISEA attended the 7th Cooperation forum under The Cooperative Mechanism on Safety of Navigation and Environmental Protection in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore. The event was held in Langkawi, Malaysia from 22nd - 23rd September, 2014.

GISEA organised the Indonesia National Workshop on National Oil Spill Preparedness and Response System in collaboration with the Directorate General of Sea Transportation (DGST) Indonesia on 16-18 September 2014 at Jakarta. 

The triennial IOSC contributes to and enables a culture of preparedness within the oil spill response community, the broader field of incident management, and society as a whole. The 2014 conference was held from 5-8th May, 2014 at Savanah, Georgia, USA.

GISEA project manager presented on a paper titled "The Global Initiative Southeast Asia". Links to the article is available at the link below.

The 7th Sub-Regional Meeting on the Implementation of the Framework Programme for Joint Oil spill Preparedness and Response in the Gulf of Thailand and Sub-regional Integration workshop on ESI Mapping in the Gulf of Thailand is held in Phuket, Thailand from August 5th to 7th, 2013.