Objective The consequences of tanker accidents are often catastrophic, raising the issue of oil spills to the highest priority for the EU community. Analysing accidents like the recent ones of the Erika or Prestige, there is a clear need for vessels specifically designed to recover oil pollution at sea (with efficient recovery tools and decantation and storage capacities), which have onboard tools to help them detect and track the pollutants. The "Oil Sea Harvester" (OSH) project is addressing these needs. The intention is to have a fast ship on transit in order to be quickly on the scene of the accident to operate oil recovery when the spill is still well concentrated. It is also intended to have a ship as stable as possible with oil recovery tools as protected as possible from the sea in order to be able to operate in rather high sea states.Specific objectives are: -To develop an innovative trimaran OSH vessel fitted with PODs for good manoeuvrability on site-To develop OSH oil recovery systems, a unique tool carriage holding the different tools-To develop OSH oil recovery scenarios and needed associated systems-To address other complementary missions. Work plan include: project management, definition of OSH profile for oil recovery missions, Preliminary ship design, design of oil recovery systems, hydrodynamics and tank tests, development and prototype testing of tools and tool carriages, definition of oil recovery missions and other missions, safety and rules compliance, final project integration, economic analysis, documentation and dissemination. Consortium comprises 11 partners of 6 EU countries with complementary capabilities (large industry, industry SMEs, operators, research centers, university, classification society). Main deliverable of the project will be the definition of the complete integrated OSH concept (vessel, tools, systems), including its economical perspective.(ref. to call FP6-2003-Transport-3 in domain 2.5) Fields of science social sciencespolitical sciencespublic administrationbureaucracynatural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencespollutionengineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringnaval engineeringsea vessels Programme(s) FP6-SUSTDEV - Sustainable Development, Global Change and Ecosystems: thematic priority 6 under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006. Topic(s) SUSTDEV-2003-3.2.2.2.6 - Research domains 2.5 and 2.6 for all surface transport modes, domain 2.2 for new product generations only, and domain 2.7 for rail transport only Call for proposal FP6-2003-TRANSPORT-3 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project Coordinator STX FRANCE SA Address Avenue bourdelle Saint nazaire France See on map Links Website Opens in new window EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (10) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all CANAL DE EXPERIENCIAS HIDRODINÁMICAS DE EI PARDO Spain EU contribution € 0,00 Address Carretera de la sierra, s/n El pardo,madrid See on map Links Website Opens in new window CENTER OF DOCUMENTATION, RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTATION ON ACCIDENTAL WATER POLLUTIONS France EU contribution € 0,00 Address 715 rue alain colas Brest See on map Links Website Opens in new window ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ENGINEERING S.A. Greece EU contribution € 0,00 Address 24, dervenakion str Piraeus See on map Links Website Opens in new window LAMOR CORPORATION AB Finland EU contribution € 0,00 Address Mestarintie 25 Porvoo See on map Links Website Opens in new window LLOYD'S REGISTER' United Kingdom EU contribution € 0,00 Address 71, fenchurch street London See on map Links Website Opens in new window MINISTÈRE DE LA DÉFENSE France EU contribution € 0,00 Address 14 rue saint dominique Paris See on map NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS Greece EU contribution € 0,00 Address 9 heroon polytechniou st., zografou Athens-zografou See on map Links Website Opens in new window NAVALIMPIANTI S.P.A. Italy EU contribution € 0,00 Address Salita guardia 60a Ceranesi (genova) See on map Links Website Opens in new window PRINCIPIA RECHERCHE ET DEVELOPPEMENT France EU contribution € 0,00 Address Zac athelia 1 - voie ariane La ciotat See on map Links Website Opens in new window SIREHNA France EU contribution € 0,00 Address 1, rue de la noe BP 42105 Nantes See on map Links Website Opens in new window