Friday, September 30, 2016

CONTACT POINTS DATED 30.09.2016

MSC-MEPC.6/Circ.14
30 September 2016
ANNEX 2
LIST OF NATIONAL OPERATIONAL CONTACT POINTS
RESPONSIBLE FOR THE RECEIPT, TRANSMISSION AND PROCESSING OF
URGENT REPORTS ON INCIDENTS INVOLVING HARMFUL SUBSTANCES,
INCLUDING OIL FROM SHIPS TO COASTAL STATES
1 The following information is provided to enable compliance with Regulation 37 of
MARPOL Annex I which, inter alia, requires that the Shipboard Oil Pollution Emergency Plan
(SOPEP) shall contain a list of authorities or persons to be contacted in the event of a
pollution incident involving such substances. Requirements for oil pollution emergency plans
and relevant oil pollution reporting procedures are contained in Articles 3 and 4 of the 1990
OPRC Convention.

2 This information is also provided to enable compliance with Regulation 17 of
MARPOL Annex II which, inter alia, requires that the shipboard marine pollution emergency
plans for oil and/or noxious liquid substances shall contain a list of authorities or persons to
be contacted in the event of a pollution incident involving such substances. In this context,
requirements for emergency plans and reporting for hazardous and noxious substances are
also contained in Article 3 of the 2000 OPRC-HNS Protocol.
3 Resolution MEPC.54(32), as amended by resolution MEPC.86(44), on the SOPEP
Guidelines and resolution MEPC.85(44), as amended by resolution MEPC.137(53), on the
Guidelines for the development of Shipboard Marine Pollution Emergency Plans for Oil
and/or Noxious Liquid Substances adopted by the IMO require that these shipboard pollution
emergency plans should include, as an appendix, the list of agencies or officials of
administrations responsible for receiving and processing reports. Such list is developed and
up-dated by the Organization in compliance with Article 8 (Reports on incidents involving
harmful substances) and Protocol I (Provisions concerning Reports on Incidents Involving
Harmful Substances) of the MARPOL Convention. Under Article 8 of the MARPOL
Convention, each Party to the Convention shall notify the Organization with complete details
of authorities responsible for receiving and processing reports on incidents for circulation to
other Parties and Member States of the Organization. Attention is also drawn to both
Guidelines which stipulate that "in the absence of a listed focal point, or should any undue
delay be experienced in contacting the responsible authority by direct means, the master
should be advised to contact the nearest coastal radio station, designated ship movement
reporting station or rescue co-ordination centre (RCC) by the quickest available means".
4 The "List of national operational contact points responsible for the receipt,

Thursday, September 15, 2016

1: North American phone calling codes

1: North American Numbering Plan Area


Countries within NANP (North American Numbering Plan) administered areas are assigned area codes as if they were all within one country. The codes below in format +1 XXX represent area code XXX within the +1 NANP zone – not a separate country code.
The North American Numbering Plan Area includes:
  • +1 –  Canada
  • +1 –  United States, including United States territories:
    • +1 340 –  United States Virgin Islands
    • +1 670 –  Northern Mariana Islands
    • +1 671 –  Guam
    • +1 684 –  American Samoa
    • +1 787 / 939 –  Puerto Rico
  • +1 Many, but not all, Caribbean nations and some Caribbean Dutch and British Overseas Territories:
    • +1 242 –  Bahamas
    • +1 246 –  Barbados
    • +1 264 –  Anguilla
    • +1 268 –  Antigua and Barbuda
    • +1 284 –  British Virgin Islands
    • +1 345 –  Cayman Islands
    • +1 441 –  Bermuda
    • +1 473 –  Grenada
    • +1 649 –  Turks and Caicos Islands
    • +1 664 –  Montserrat
    • +1 721 –  Sint Maarten
    • +1 758 –  Saint Lucia
    • +1 767 –  Dominica
    • +1 784 –  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
    • +1 809 / 829 / 849 –  Dominican Republic
    • +1 868 –  Trinidad and Tobago
    • +1 869 –  Saint Kitts and Nevis
    • +1 876 –  Jamaica

2: mostly Africa phone calling codes

2: mostly Africa

(but also Aruba, Faroe Islands, Greenland and British Indian Ocean Territory)
  • +20 –  Egypt
  • +210 – unassigned
  • +211 –  South Sudan
  • +212 –  Morocco
  • +213 –  Algeria
  • +214 – unassigned
  • +215 – unassigned
  • +216 –  Tunisia
  • +217 – unassigned
  • +218 –  Libya
  • +219 – unassigned
  • +220 –  Gambia
  • +221 –  Senegal
  • +222 –  Mauritania
  • +223 –  Mali
  • +224 –  Guinea
  • +225 –  Ivory Coast
  • +226 –  Burkina Faso
  • +227 –  Niger
  • +228 –  Togo
  • +229 –  Benin
  • +230 –  Mauritius
  • +231 –  Liberia
  • +232 –  Sierra Leone
  • +233 –  Ghana
  • +234 –  Nigeria
  • +235 –  Chad
  • +236 –  Central African Republic
  • +237 –  Cameroon
  • +238 –  Cape Verde
  • +239 –  SĂ£o TomĂ© and PrĂ­ncipe
  • +240 –  Equatorial Guinea
  • +241 –  Gabon
  • +242 –  Republic of the Congo
  • +243 –  Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • +244 –  Angola
  • +245 –  Guinea-Bissau
  • +246 –  British Indian Ocean Territory
  • +247 –  Ascension Island
  • +248 –  Seychelles
  • +249 –  Sudan
  • +250 –  Rwanda
  • +251 –  Ethiopia
  • +252 –  Somalia
  • +253 –  Djibouti
  • +254 –  Kenya
  • +255 –  Tanzania
    • +255 24 –  Zanzibar, in place of never-implemented +259
  • +256 –  Uganda
  • +257 –  Burundi
  • +258 –  Mozambique
  • +259 – unassigned, was intended for Zanzibar but never implemented – see +255 Tanzania
  • +260 –  Zambia
  • +261 –  Madagascar
  • +262 –  RĂ©union
    • +262 269 / 639 –  Mayotte (land / mobile, formerly with +269 Comoros)
  • +263 –  Zimbabwe
  • +264 –  Namibia
  • +265 –  Malawi
  • +266 –  Lesotho
  • +267 –  Botswana
  • +268 –  Swaziland
  • +269 –  Comoros (Mayotte was here but moved to +262 RĂ©union)
  • +27 –  South Africa
  • +28x – unassigned (Reserved for country code expansion)
  • +290 –  Saint Helena
    • +290 8 –  Tristan da Cunha
  • +291 –  Eritrea
  • +292 – unassigned
  • +293 – unassigned
  • +294 – unassigned
  • +295 – discontinued (was assigned to San Marino, see +378)
  • +296 – unassigned
  • +297 –  Aruba
  • +298 –  Faroe Islands
  • +299 –  Greenland