Participate in the SESN

The INECE Seaport Environmental Security Network is an operational network of professionals involved in the inspection and monitoring of transboundary movements of hazardous waste through seaports. 

SESN participants work together to build capacity, raise awareness, and facilitate enforcement collaboration on ways to detect and control illegal and dangerous transboundary shipments of environmentally-regulated goods through seaports, including hazardous materials, electronic waste, and ozone depleting substances.

For more information, see the background information on the SESN.

Participation in the SESN is open to governments, organizations, and individuals with responsibility for controling shipments of hazardous waste through seaports.

Seaport Environmental Security Training Resources: INECE is developing a library of capacity building resources related to seaports. Review the current status of the library and submit recommendations to inece@inece.org. These include:

• Negotiating Customs and Environmental Cooperation: Course Materials and Resources for Designing an Effective National Program
  
  
• Negotiating Customs and Environmental Cooperation: The Negotiations Process

Key Activities & Publications

Visit the larger version of the SESN Workshop Slideshow
or the full photo galleries

The SESN convenes workshops and releases publications to support practitioners. A selection of these are listed below:

• Global Crackdown on Illegal Hazardous Waste Shipping Confirms Benefits of Cross-Border Cooperation
  Final report and recommendations from the 2010 International Hazardous Waste Inspection Project at Seaports
  
  
• 2nd Workshop on Combating Illegal Hazardous Waste Trade Through Seaports, Siem Reap, Cambodia, November 2010.
  Visit the workshop page for presentations, outcomes, and images.
  
  
• 1st Workshop on Combating Illegal Hazardous Waste Trade Through Seaports, Accra, Ghana, June 2009.
  
  
• SESN Working Paper, November 2009, discusses illegal trade of hazardous waste through seaports and obstacles to effective international effort to detect and deter such shipments.
  
  
• Seaport Environmental Security Network Kick-off Meeting, Lyon, France, October 2009.
  
  
• Seaport Security Network Workshop, Cape Town, South Africa, April 2008.
  
  
• Illegal Transports of Waste: Tricks of the Trade, reviews basics of understanding illegal practices that may occur during shipments of waste.