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EMCIP

The European Marine Casualty Information Platform, where EU and EEA states report and investigate accidents and incidents at sea. We built it for EMSA and put it live in September 2018.

System
EMCIP, the European Marine Casualty Information Platform
Client
EMSA
Our role
Design, development, enhancement and maintenance
Years
2017–2026
Status
Completed

What it is

One database for casualties at sea.

EMCIP is the database that EMSA, the European Commission and the EU and EEA member states use for marine casualties and incidents, including occupational accidents on board. States notify a casualty, record what their investigation finds and share the lessons. EMSA draws statistics and analysis from it, passes investigation data to the International Maritime Organization, and makes investigation reports and anonymised data available to the public.

Who uses it

Every EU state, plus Iceland and Norway.

  • Reporting is mandatory under Directive 2009/18/EC
  • 26,802 occurrences recorded in EMCIP from 2016 to 2025

What we built

The platform behind EMCIP since 2018.

We built the platform that replaced the original 2011 system, put it live in September 2018 and developed it through 88 releases. It covers:

  • Casualty notification and investigation data entry, with a discussion thread on each record
  • A taxonomy editor, with statistics and export
  • Data-quality rules
  • Workflows and notifications
  • Search and maps
  • A ship registry
  • Transfer of investigation data to IMO's GISIS
  • Translations and reports
  • A public portal with open data and dashboards
  • Internal, external and open APIs behind single sign-on

Built as Java services with Angular web applications, deployed on Kubernetes.

NotificationInvestigationTaxonomy and quality rulesStatistics and public portalIMO GISIS
Inside EMCIPOutside: IMO's system

What made it hard

Many states, one database.

01Authorities and investigation bodies across Europe, all reporting into one database.
02A taxonomy EMSA developed with the member states, which every record has to follow.
03Investigation data passed on to IMO's GISIS without anyone entering it twice.
04Open data and reports for the public, from the same records, anonymised.

How it ran

Built under one framework contract, developed under a second.

EMSA manages EMCIP for the European Commission, with the member states' EMCIP User Group. We worked under two framework contracts: the first to build the platform, the second, from 2022, to enhance and maintain it.

Jan 2017EMSA awards us the contract for the new EMCIP
Sep 2018The new EMCIP goes live
2022EMSA awards us a second framework contract
  • Jan 2017EMSA awards us the contract for the new EMCIP
  • Sep 2018The new EMCIP goes live
  • 2022EMSA awards us a second framework contract

Standards it implements

The regulations and formats it follows.

  • Directive 2009/18/EC
  • The EMCIP taxonomy
  • Data exchange with IMO GISIS

Next step

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