With the passenger ship industry still feeling the repercussions of the Costa Concordia accident, the focus has fallen on how to improve ship evacuations. A European Union project researching evacuation models will be completed by the end of this year and may provide some answers. The Safeguard project is funded by the European Commission’s seventh framework programme for sustainable surface transport. Safeguard was established to improve IMO’s Maritime Safety Committee (MSC) Circul....

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