Swire Emergency Response Services announces new partnership with International Environmental and Marine Services
Dubai-based Swire Emergency Response Services (SERS), a fully owned subsidiary of Swire Pacific Offshore group, announced its partnership with Mediterranean-based International Environmental and Marine Services (IEMS) to jointly provide Tier 2/3 response services to clients in Europe, Africa and the Middle East The partnership was inked on 24 October in Dubai, the company said in its press release.
As part of this partnership, SERS and IEMS will also jointly establish an Oil Spill Response Centre (OSRC) in South Africa by the end of 2014. This centre will provide supplementary personnel and equipment to enhance the response capabilities of the current OSRCs of IEMS and SERS. Both companies will also jointly offer International Maritime Organization (IMO) Level 1 and Level 2 Oil Spill Training from dedicated operational OSRCs in the Red Sea and the Mediterranean. The training will equip clients’ personnel with effective oil spill response knowledge, to undertake initial assessments of spill risks and to choose the correct response options.