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Vardø Vessel Traffic Service Centre ((ノルウェー語:Vardø trafikksentral); call sign: NOR VTS), also known as Norwegian Oceanic Region Vessel Traffic Service, is a vessel traffic service situated in the town of Vardø in Vardø, Norway. It is responsible for monitoring ship traffic off the baseline of Norway throughout the exclusive economic zone (EEZ), including the areas around Jan Mayen and Svalbard. It has special responsibilities for the sealanes into Hammerfest and Sveagruva. Proposals for a northerly VTS arose around 2000 and the plans approve din 2003. The station became operational on 1 January 2007 and was jointly located with Vardø Radio. It was issued the task of a new traffic separation scheme and the emergency tugboat service. Since 2010 NOR VTS has been able to monitor a larger area with through the AISSat satellite constellation, ultimately resulting in a ground station being built at Vardø. Since 2010 NOR VTS has coordinated Navarea XIX. ==History== The background for establishing the center was the need to monitor offshore oil tanker traffic, mostly Russian, which runs along the coast of Norway. Russia and Norway cooperated in planning and training for oil spills in the Barents Sea since 1994. Proposals for a VTS covering the Norwegian and Barents Sea were around the turn of the millennium, initially intended to cover Northern Norway. The Coastal Administration proposed several possible locations as suitable, such as Honningsvåg, Lødingen, Reitan in Bodø, Tromsø and Vardø. Arguments for locating it in Vardø was the possibility for co-locating it with Vardø Radio. Lødning and Honningsvåg were proposed due to them hosting regional offices of the Coastal Administration. Another dimension of the discussion was whether the facility should be military or civilian. In case of a military operation, it would undoubtedly have been placed at Reitan, the site of the Norwegian Joint Headquarters. The Coastal Administration argued that operations should be civilian, stating that it was not suitable for the military to be conducting surveillance of civilian traffic. A report ordered by the Ministry of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs concluded that Honningsvåg was the most suitable site. The report emphasized the town's strong maritime competence due to the Coastal Administration's regional offices being located there. Minister Svein Ludvigsen turned around the decision. He emphasized the "strategic" location and that it would have a rural-political impact. Construction was budgeted at 134 million Norwegian krone.〔 The facility became operational on 1 January 2007, and was officially opened on 23 January.〔 Initially the VTS was given jurisdiction over the ocean south to Rørvik. The center received two employees.〔 From 1 July a traffic separation scheme (TTS) was introduced along the coast from Vardø to Røst, with NOR VTS set to monitor the traffic. Approved by the International Maritime Organization (IMO), the TTS forced tankers exceeding 5,000 gross tonnes to follow a stipulated, separated route typically from the shore. NOR VTS was also given the responsibility for the State Emergency Tow Response Service, a joint effort between the Coastal Administration and the Coast Guard. IMO and the International Hydrographic Organization expanded the Navareas in 2010 to also include polar waters. Norway and hence NOR VTS was given the responsibility for coordination within Navarea XIX.〔 A analysis division was established in conjunction with the VTS in 2014. Initially NOR VTS only had access to AIS data from coastal stations. This changed in 2010 when AISSat-1 was launched. Built as a demonstration project, it quickly proved reliable to monitor the high sees within NOR VTS's area of responsibility. Initially telemetry operated out of Svalbard Satellite Station, but in 2015 a ground station opened in Vardø next to the VTS, allowing for a greater period of online operations. The give the constallation redundancy, AISSat-2 was launched in 2014 and AISSat-3 the following year. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Vardø Vessel Traffic Service Centre」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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