JANUARY 3, 2014 — The Marine Response Alliance (MRA), an affiliation of the highest U.S. emergency responders offering OPA 90 Salvage Marine Firefighting (SMFF), has launched an unique cellular app. It gives ship homeowners/operators, certified people (QIs) and the U.S. Coast Guard with speedy entry to the MRA’s assets for OPA 90 mandated SMFF 90 compliance in addition to the power to report incidents by means of Titan Salvage (MRA associate) around the globe.
The OPA 90 SMFF app permits customers to report an incident, have direct dial entry to worldwide places of work, and acquire speedy entry to a safe password protected database of registered vessel paperwork, pre-fire plans and certificates on-line, which might then be saved within the consumer’s offline paperwork. The consumer can evaluate MRA’s geographic particular appendices, request drills, see salvage information and obtain regulatory updates.
“With the OPA 90 SMFF app, the user has easy access to immediate response capabilities anywhere, anytime,” stated Lindsay Malen, director of enterprise growth for MRA and Titan. “As a responder the user can download vessel documents while headed to a casualty or the USCG can quickly access the plan holders Funding Agreement to ensure compliance. This is just another way the MRA is making these requirements time and cost efficient.”
The app will be downloaded without cost at Apple and Android app shops utilizing search phrases “OPA 90 SMFF App” or “Marine Response Alliance.”
MRA, based in 1994, combines specialists in all sides of emergency response with salvage, firefighting and lightering tools in all Captain of the Port Zones. Alliance members embody Titan, Crowley Maritime, Marine Pollution Control and McAllister Towing & Transportation.
