The meeting of administrative staff of Sate Enterprise "Maritime Search and Rescue Service" with the Head of Sate Service of Maritime and Inland Water Transport of Ukraine Dmytro Petrenko, took place in Odessa on February 14th .
First Deputy Head of the service, Dmytro Barynov, as well as Harbor Masters and heads of interregional directorates of Maritime Administration also took part in the meeting.

 On January 22nd the crew of the rescue vessel "Sapfir" of State Enterprise "Maritime Search and Rescue Service" conducted testing of the speed boat type «RIB – 650».
 According to the explanatory legend, the crew provided assistance to the vessel in danger which sent a distress signal. Maritime rescuers conducted the search of the nominal victims on all-weather SAR speed boat "PRK-501" long way from the tug "Sapfir". Due to the high speed capacity of the boat, they have reached the place of conduction of the rescue operation very quickly and were able to fulfil all the necessary rescue procedures.

 On January 16th 2019 in the headquarters of International Maritime Organization (ІМО) in London started its work the 6th Session of the sub-committee on Navigation, communications and search and rescue. The representatives of State Enterprise "Marine Search and Rescue Service" took part in the meetings as part of Ukrainian delegation.

 On January 14, 2019, the second round of Ukrainian-Turkish consultations on maritime search and rescue cooperation was held in Istanbul.
 During negotiations it was discussed a wide range of issues on further strengthening of the bilateral cooperation between Ukraine and   Turkey in the search and rescue area.