2. Ships coming from a port outside the Community and bound for a port of a Member State carrying dangerous or polluting goods, shall comply with the notification obligations of Article 13.

(d) for a ship coming from a port located outside the Community and bound for a port in a Member State: estimated time of arrival at the port of destination or pilot station, as required by the competent authority.

2. The operator, agent or master of a ship, irrespective of its size, carrying dangerous or polluting goods coming from a port located outside the Community and bound for a port of a Member State or an anchorage located in a Member State's territorial waters shall, at the latest upon departure from the loading port or as soon as the port of destination or the location of the anchorage is known, if this information is unavailable at the moment of departure, notify the information indicated in Annex I(3) to the competent authority of the Member State in which the first port of destination or anchorage is located.

The Committee recommended that the government focus on coastal security by, amongst other things, establishing multi-departmental operations centres, modernizing surveillance technologies and doing more to identify ships heading to Canada.

That previous government inherited an 18-wheeler that was going down the road at 200 miles per hour in the wrong direction.

That translates into 11 warships underway today, including a task group of a destroyer and some frigates, a supply ship and a submarine conducting force-generation activities off the East Coast.