Maritime Security West Conference — Seattle

If you are an emergency manager that has a direct connection to navigational waters, you should be working to make connections with maritime organizations.

One such opportunity comes with the annual series of maritime security conferences. Coming soon to Washington state is the Maritime West Security Conference.

I’m being added to the agenda and will be speaking about an eight-county Maritime Transportation System Resilience project.

Check out the informational flyer that explains what the project is about in more detail. Basically, emergency managers and their jurisdictions are looking to have a better connection with the maritime industry. This will allow the maritime sector to become a force multiplier when an earthquake takes out the ground-based transportation systems of roads, bridges and railways.

Maximizing the use of the maritime sector will require “out of the box” thinking for how normal operations are conducted. When disasters strike, it will not longer be “business as usual.”