Helcom : Poland’s Maritime Search and Rescue Service to host a media tour of the HELCOM BALEX DELTA exercise area

04.09.2006

Media Advisory

Poland’s Maritime Search and Rescue Service to host a media tour of the HELCOM BALEX DELTA exercise area

Helsinki, 4 September (HELCOM) – Poland’s Maritime Search and Rescue Service will host a media tour of the HELCOM BALEX DELTA exercise area outside Gdynia on Wednesday, 6th of September. The tour vessel AGAT with media representatives will depart from the Port of Gdynia at 10:00 LT and will return at 14:00 LT (Please see map for the location of the tour vessel).

Media representatives interested in attending the event should contact the information officer at the Maritime Search and Rescue Service, Ms. Miroslawa Wieckowska (tel. +48 58 661 52 22 or mbl. +48 505 050 970.

A media availability will follow the tour. Organisers and participants of the BALEX DELTA 2006 will meet with the press at 16:45 LT at the following location: Faculty of Navigation, Maritime Academy in Gdynia, Al Jana Pawla II/ 3. (Please see map).

Event: Press tour of the BALEX DELTA 2006 exercise area

Media availability following the HELCOM BALEX DELTA 2006 exercise

Date: Wednesday, 6 September 2006

Time: 10:00 - Press tour

16:45 - Media availability

Location: Port of Gdynia, Poland (tour),

Faculty of Navigation, Maritime Academy in Gdynia, Al Jana Pawla II/ 3 (media availability).

Follow-up: HELCOM press release

For more information, please contact:

Mr. Thomas Fagö

Swedish Coast Guard HQ
Chairman of HELCOM RESPONSE
Tel: +46 (455) 353455
E-mail: thomas.fago@coastguard.se

Ms. Miroslawa Wieckowska