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Mainland, Taiwan stage joint sea drill
Source: Xinhua |
September 17, 2010, Friday
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AUTHORITIES from the mainland and Taiwan launched a maritime search and rescue exercise yesterday in the Taiwan Strait.
The exercise scenario was a collision of two passenger-cargo vessels in the waters between Xiamen and Jinmen. Fourteen rescue vessels, three helicopters and more than 400 people took part.
Rescue personnel from the mainland and Taiwan received a distress call from a ship in the Strait simultaneously and dispatched rescue and medical units to the site after coordination and consultation.
The exercise aims to test the abilities of emergency response and communication, maritime search and medical personnel to safeguard transport in the Strait, said Zhai Jiugang, director of the chief duty room with China Maritime Search and Rescue Center.
Mainland participants included the Association for Shipping Across the Straits and Xiamen City government. Participants from Taiwan included the Chinese Search and Rescue Association and the government of Jinmen County.
The exercise is the first of its kind jointly conducted by both sides of the Strait since the mainland and Taiwan directly linked post, trade and transport at the end of 2008.
Shipping associations on both sides agreed in 1997 to cooperate in maritime rescues in the Strait and to establish a 24-hour rescue hotline.
In October 2008, the Xiamen maritime rescue department conducted a rescue exercise on the shipping route between Xiamen and Jinmen.
The mainland-based Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits and the Taiwan-based Straits Exchange Foundation signed an agreement the next month to establish a cooperation mechanism for maritime rescue.
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