Report of the Working Group on Risks of Maritime Activities in the Baltic Sea (WGMABS)

The Working Group on Risks of Maritime Activities in the Baltic Sea (WGMABS) met in Helsinki, Finland, 6–10 November 2017. This was the third and last meeting of the work-ing group and the objective was to review the recent work to understand what kind of scientific tools are available for maritime risk assessment and management. Moreover, there was a need to suggest the future activities of ICES, related to maritime risks and especially on oil spill risk analysis, which has been the main focus of WGMABS. There has been extensions of Bayesian approach, especially in engineering sciences, which has led to models that can be potentially integrated to such biological models which have been developed by Bayesian networks.Also some novel scientific approaches like System-Theoretic Accident Model and Pro-cesses (STAMP) has been introduced. STAMP-Mar as the application of systems-theoretic approach to maritime domain - safety management of sustainable eco-socio-technical maritime transportation system, and the risk based maritime spatial planning (RBMSP). It considers safety an emergent property of the system, arising from the interaction of system components within a given environment. The Next Generation SmartResponse Web (NG-SRW) under development by BONUS STORMWINDS project was introduced as an online information management and exchange software platform enabling, main-taining and sharing the effective Common Situational Awareness (CSA) for maritime emergency management.