Senegal
Spill Notification Point
Centre Coordination des Opération
National Seleganese Navy
Tel: +221-338222104 or +221-338217140
Fax : +221 338265001
Port of Dakar
21 Boulevard de la Liberation
P.O. Box 3195
Dakar
Tel: +221-332234545 or +221-33222970/4545
Fax: +221-33213606
Competent National Authority
Haute Autorité chargéé de la coordination de la sécurité maritime et de la protection de l’environnement marin (HASSMAR).
Dakar
Senegal
BP 27074
Tel: +221-338 237975
Response Arrangements
The National Contingency Plan was launched at a GI WACAF workshop in 2008. Responsibility for oil pollution control in Senegal lies with Haute Autorité Chargéé de la Coordination de la Sécurité Maritime et de la Protection de l’Environnement Marin (HASSMAR). Specific details are not know, but responsibility for at sea response lies with the Navy who will appoint an at sea operations commander. Shoreline clean-up is the responsibility of the fire department of the Ministry of the Interior. The on-shore operations commander will be appointed from this department.
Response Policy
Mechanical containment and recovery appear to be the preferred options but dispersants are recognised as a valid response technique. An approved list of dispersants is being prepared based on testing carried out in other countries such as France, Australia and the US and zones where the application of dispersants is permitted will be identified based on water depth, distance to shore and sensitive resources. HASSMAR is the authority responsible for giving formal authorisation for the application of dispersants during a spill (Information from GI WACAF 2011) The disposal of bulk oil may be facilitated through a private waste oil disposal firm in Dakar. The disposal options for oily waste are not known.
Equipment
Government
At present there are few resources for responding to oil spills. The Environmental Directorate operates several small boats together with some storage tanks, boom and sorbent. Other resources are held by public works departments and port authorities and include agricultural equipment and labour for shoreline clean-up.
Previous Spill Experience
There do not appear to have been any major spills in Senegalese waters.covered from the shoreline.
Conventions
Prevention & Safety
| MARPOL Annexes | ||||
| 73/78 | III | IV | V | VI |
| ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Spill Response
| OPRC '90 | OPRC HNS |
| ✔ |
Compensation
| CLC | Fund | Supp | HNS* | Bunker | ||
| '69 | '76 | '92 | '92 | Fund | ||
| ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
* not yet in force
Regional & Bilateral Agreements
- Abidjan Convention (with states of the West and Central African Region).
Date of issue: November 2011
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