Incident & Oil Spill Management

Hands-On Experience

Maritime Alliance Group, Inc. personnel have provided Spill Management Team (SMT) type services prior to and since the inception of OPA '90. In-house, Maritime Alliance Group has more practical "hands-on" experience than any other service provider.

Maritime Alliance Group's eight (8) full-time staff members, supported by additional administrative personnel and network field responders, currently provide casualty response planning, training and incident response to the owners and insurers of approximately 45,000 vessels. A nationwide network of over 40 response professionals to serve on our team and act as nationwide correspondents supports our staff. We can place a Marine Spill Manager on-site within 2 hours of incident notification, anywhere within the United States or Canada. The maintained network personnel are all actively engaged on a full-time basis responding to casualties in the commercial maritime industry.

The Maritime Alliance Group SMT provides:

• Over 100 years of actual in-house experience responding to the cleanup of over 600 various sized oil and chemical spills.
• A twenty-four hour, 365-day availability with a state-of-the-art communications network ready to receive emergency calls and to respond to any type and size of incident.
• A nationwide network of respected and seasoned spill response professionals, thoroughly well versed in all aspects of Qualified Individual requirements and Spill Management techniques to rapidly respond to real or potential incidents in all Captain-of the-Port zones. "Touch of the Button" mobilization of all necessary personnel and resources to provide a fully staffed
• Incident Command System organization (ICS) capable of expanding or contracting as the situation warrants, to manage and direct any size spill response. This organization includes the following:
• Incident Commander
• Operations Section Chief
• Logistics Section Chief
• Planning Section Chief
• Finance Section Chief

Access to additional experts who can be assimilated into the ICS structure to provide needed support in the following fields:

• Environmental Specialists
• Natural Resource Damage Assessment
• Health and Safety Specialists
• Public Relations
• Media Consultants
• Fire and Explosion
• Salvage
• Oil Spill Modeling and Trajectory
• SMT and support personnel to conduct all sizes and types of OPA '90 required exercises.
• Proprietary, discounted rate agreements with major United States cleanup contractors.

All SMT personnel are certified for the requisite Health & Safety for Hazardous Material (HAZWOPER) training, maintained by annual refresher courses.

Hands-On Experience

Maritime Alliance Group, Inc. provides supplemental Spill management Team Services to a wide array of clients. Many companies, such as American flag tanker owners, tug and barge companies, facilities, and full service OPA '90 providers, field their own spill management teams. However, many realize they have limited actual spill response experience and utilize our seasoned professionals to supplement their teams. Others utilize our services for larger spills to supplement their existing personnel. Whether you require a single spill manager or multiple responders, Maritime Alliance Group can provide assistance for all your spill response management needs.

Our services include:

• Provide one or more qualified personnel to fill any Incident Command position
• Seamless integration of personnel into existing Spill Management Team
• Provide decision making assistance to your Qualified Individual/Incident Commander
• Incident monitoring and cost control services for P & I Clubs and third parties.

Maritime Alliance Group routinely performs audits of costs submitted during an Oil Spill event. In coordination with the Finance Section during the response, we initially assist in establishing rates and terms with the various response entities on the response. During the removal activities, we monitor the ongoing field activities. As the invoices are received, we conduct a comprehensive review of the invoices, so that when a payment recommendation is put forward, our client is certain that best cost containment practices were followed. We prepare our audit reports so that they can be used to support an eventual claim to the National Pollution Trust Fund, if indicated.