Group 2, Scenario 2Port of Galle CBRNE Incident

Tempest Express 24Colombo, Sri Lanka

31 March – 09 April 2014

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PORT OF GALLE, SRI LANKA

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• Sri Lanka’s main port in southern province

• Medium-sized port; includes cranes, tugs, warehouses, customs and quarantine facilities

• Close to city, road and rail transport• Supports merchant and pleasure

craft• Closest Sri Lanka point of approach

for vessels transiting between Suez Canal/Persian Gulf and Asia

• Susceptible to Southwest Monsoon effects

• http://www.slpa.lk/contact_us_gallePort.asp#

SCENARIO 2• Date: 01 April 2014• Location: Port of Galle, southern Sri Lanka• Problem: At 1130Z,

– Container vessel MV Dondra Express is unloading shipping containers in Port of Galle. It is moored at dock in middle of its offloading containers operation.

– As ship’s crane lifts one particular container of “scrap metal” TGHU 307703 0 22G1, a crane cable breaks causing container to fall 25 meters where it ruptures, contents spill on the dock and into the bay.

– Workers immediately police up scattered “scrap metal” in area while others try to repair crane.– Most “scrap metal” on dock is put into another container while smaller bits are pushed in water.– Workers hose the dock off and resume offload operations. Several shipyard support

trucks/vehicles drive thru hosed off areas in the course of their duties.– Other containers that were on MV Dondra Express adjacent to where “scrap metal” container was

secured are now trans loaded to a smaller container ship in the harbor, MV Mercmas I as well as to awaiting vehicles for overland transport.

– At some point it is discovered that TGHU 307703 0 22G1 was a hot box emitting profuse radiation due to having radioactive contents, stevedores get sick, unknown amounts of radioactive material may have contaminated dock area and surrounding containers on original ship.

– Radioactive material may have spread in harbor, spread to another ship, and been trucked inland to Galle and points beyond …

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TGHU 307703 0 22G1

COLOMBONATL. CAPITAL

GALLE110 KM SOUTHOF COLOMBO

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PORT OFGALLE

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PORT OFGALLE

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MV DONDRA EXPRESSOFFLOADING CONTAINERS

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PORT OFGALLE

GALLE PORT INFO

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GALLE PORT INFO

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CONTAINER INFO• The code on the container—TGHU 307703 0 22G1 • TGHU prefix tags it as the property of Textainer, a Bermuda-based shipping concern that owns

more than 2.4 million boxes just like it• The lone zero is a “check digit” that helps confirm the box’s identity• 22G1 designates it as an unventilated, 20-foot-long dry shipping container• 307703 is the unique part of the ID, that lets shippers and investigators track its long, winding

journey to Galle• A Textainer spokesperson says the company last saw container 307703 in April 2012, when its six

steel walls were leased to “an established customer” • Sri Lankan officials say the customer was Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), a shipping

goliath headquartered in Geneva • In October 2012, the box was packed at a metal yard in Saudi Arabia under the auspices of Sun

Metal Casting, a scrap-metal dealer in the Arab emirate of Ajman• In recent years, scrap metal has become a booming global business, with manufacturers

continually searching for cheaper places to get metals like steel and copper• 307703 s load was bound for a foundry in Colombo, 110 KM miles north of Galle′• A photo snapped by the shipper before 307703 s doors were closed and sealed with a thumb-′

sized lead-and-plastic tag shows radiators and coils of copper wire piled almost to the roof – Assuming photo is actually of the same container and the container wasn’t tampered with

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SRI LANKAN ASSETS AVAILABLETO SUPPORT

• NAVY– 1 X XXX– 1 X XXX– 1 X XXX

• ARMY– 1 X XXX

• AIR FORCE– 1 X XXX

• POLICE– 1 X XXX

• FIRE– 1 X XXX

• MEDICAL– 1 X XXX

• OTHER– 1 X XXX

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FOREIGN ASSETS AVAILABLETO SUPPORT

• USA– 1 X USCG INCIDENT RESP TM– 1 X DDG (HOWARD (DDG-83))

• 2 X SH-60B– 1 X CHEM CO (71 CM CO, USA) – 1 X HAST (3D MEB)

• BGD– 1 X FFG (BNS BANGABANDHU)

• 1 X HELO

• MYS– 1 X MEDICAL TEAM

• SGP– 1 X ENGR CO

• AUS– 13TH FLD SQDN, PERTH

• CAN– ELEMENTS OF 4TH ENGR RGT

• THA– 2 X MEDICAL TEAMS

• GBR– 22D FIELD HOSPITAL

GROUP 2 Tasks PROBLEM • Using the Military Decision

Making Process-Multinational, determine the best course-of-action to respond to this situation

• Discuss / document considerations for first aid, contamination, security, foreign assets, weather, time, mitigation of spill, mission RoE, public affairs

• Container tracing?

• Could it be weaponized?• Propose other ideas for Sri

Lankan military for CBRNE training

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