The Coast Guard is Sweden's civilian maritime hub. We protect lives and the environment, combat crime, and strengthen society's preparedness and total defense.
The Coast Guard is responsible for monitoring maritime environments and providing civil maritime information to other authorities. Our maritime surveillance remit has intensified in recent years due to the deteriorating international situation. Among other things, this has meant that we have prioritised developing our intelligence operations and our ability to continuously produce up-to-date maritime situational pictures of what is happening in the maritime environment.
Our maritime situational pictures are at the centre of ongoing work to detect threats, cooperate with other authorities and act proactively. The concept of a maritime situational picture combines technology, analysis, reconnaissance and human experience. Above all, it relies on cooperation between different authorities and actors.
The Coast Guard is an emergency response agency and part of Sweden’s total defense. In the event of war or heightened alert, we support the Swedish Armed Forces, protect the civilian population, and help ensure that critical societal functions continue to operate.
The Coast Guard saves lives, protects the environment and minimises damage in the event of accidents at sea. We are responsible for environmental rescue operations and take part in maritime rescue and other rescue operations using vessels and aircraft, in collaboration with other authorities.
The Swedish Coast Guard has an important role in protecting the marine and coastal environment from spills of oil and other harmful substances. Through surveillance, preparedness and environmental rescue operations, we work to detect spills quickly, limit them and reduce their impact on the environment.
Seen anything suspicious at sea? Send us a tip anytime, day or night.
Emergency? Call 112.
Last week, the Swedish Coast Guard held a pollution response exercise in the Stockholm archipelago. Personnel from the Djurö and Oxelösund coast guard stations practised responding to a simulated oil spill using the Coast Guard's pollution response equipment.
The vessel Sea Owl 1 has been at anchor off Trelleborg since March. It may now leave its position and continue its voyage. This follows a decision today by the Swedish Transport Agency to lift the ban on use. Sea Owl 1 is now flagged in Equatorial Guinea.
On Wednesday 30 September, European satellite surveillance detected a suspected oil spill at sea, in the shipping lane south-east of Gotland. The Swedish Coast Guard sent both aircraft and vessels to the position. By Thursday morning, however, there was no longer any trace of the spill.
