Type of exercise
Full-scale exercise
Action tested
Equipment deployment
Communication
Coordination
Modelling
Protocol compliance
Type of incident
Spill
Coastal
Organisation
DCPM-AMN (Direção de Combate à Poluição do Mar, Portuguese National Maritime Authority)
Setúbal, Portugal
The objective of this exercise was to request and coordinate numerous human, nautical and air resources with interministerial and international reinforcements.
Marine/coastal environments
National
International
English
Portuguese
Exercises documentation
EXERCISE CASCADE 2019
Dissemination materials
Teams from Spain, France, Belgium, Germany and Croatia participated in this exercise, mobilizing a total of more than 3000 participants, foreigners and Portuguese. CASCADE'19 aimed to test and train the response to multiple emergency situations that may occur in cascade (earthquakes, floods, chemical accident, dam rupture and maritime pollution) in national territory, in the case of a LIVEX (Live Exercise) with more than 60 different scenarios, in the districts of Lisbon, Aveiro, Évora and Setúbal.
2019
Portuguese
Exercise CASCADE 2019_ Video
Multimedia
Video promoting the European Exercise CASCADE'19.
2019
Portuguese
Drills and Exercises Annual Report 2019
Report
To achieve the level of performance for pollution response required by the EMSA, the agency performs regular training, drills, Equipment Condition Tests (ECTs) and exercises. This report summarises the drills and exercises carried out in 2019.
2020
English