At Shoreham Port, the Harbour Master has overall responsibility for the conduct of the oil spill response operations and for casualty and/or salvage management. He is supported in this role by the Oil Spill Management Team and Shoreham Port’s own Internal Incident Management Team.
In the event of a one-tier incident, appropriate response actions will be taken in accordance with Shoreham Port’s Oil Spill Contingency Plan.To deal with this type of incident, Shoreham Port has its own in-house Oil Spill Response Unit.
Should a tier two or three incident occur, the Port’s Oil Spill Management Team would convene and assistance would be provided by Oil Spill Response Limited (Southampton), who provide regional oil spill response services to the Port.