The GreenPort Cruise conference highlights the environmental and sustainability issues facing Cruise terminals across the world.
A number of reception facilities offer a vapour recovery service, using different techniques. MTD, located in the port of Antwerp, operates a vapour recovery unit in which the vapours are absorbed on active carbon. Installations such as ESSO and...
Historically low oil prices bring waste oil collectors in difficulty. North Refinery, active in refining waste oil and in regeneration drilling mud for offshore, went out of business.
Bangladesh has no metal resources of its own city, so the shipbreaking yards in Chittagong, its largest second city, generate high profits for their owners. Workers though, enjoy none of the benefits of that profit; wages are barely enough to...
Waste which enters the ocean can turn up anywhere in the world. In 1992 a container ship in the Pacific Ocean lost 30,000 rubber ducks off the coast of China.
Euroshore-member SEREP specializes in industrial outflow treatment and hydrocarbon reprocessing needs. Located in major marine port of Le Havre it offers water treatment at the source or in the SEREP treatment and reprocessing centre.
The definitive publication of last year’s figures show a substantial increase of the amounts of waste disposed by the ships in the Flemish ports in 2013. The figures concern the ports of Antwerp, Ghent and Zeebrugge.
2014 was a transitional year. Although volumes in ports were picking up, the overall maritime business climate is still slacking. We noticed shipping lines have started to consolidate and/or collaborate to reduce costs and optimize their vessel...
Based in Marseilles-Fos, SERMAP specialises in the collection, transport, recycling and treatment of industrial waste products and liquid residues from cargo and shipping vessels. With their own vacuum trucks, tank trucks and a barge, they have...
Cruise ships dumped more than a billion gallons of sewage into the ocean in 2014, much of it raw or poorly treated, an environmental group says.
China Dongfang Environmental Protection Machinery Company the professional manufacturer to supply Aquatic Weed Harvester and Garbage Collection Boat.
The polluter pays: on this principle the CDNI Treaty governing the waste from inland navigation is based. The Treaty deals with the different aspects of waste collection, disposal and treatment for river barges sailing in Belgium, France, Germany...
Before each cargo switch, barges need to be cleaned thoroughly. ATM Moerdijk offers high quality cleaning services for inland navigation - at its own jetty. Skippers choosing to clean their ships themselves, can also dispose their wash waters for...
At the Euroshore Annual Meeting which was held in Gibraltar on June 25th 2010, Mr Wim HULSHOF, CEO of ATM (The Netherlands) was unanimously elected as chairman of Euroshore for the next 2 years.
In Bangladesh, men desperate for work perform one of the world's most dangerous jobs. They demolish huge ships in grueling conditions, braving disease, pollution, and the threat of being crushed or stabbed by steel sliced from the hulls.
Inland waterway transport is deemed to be the most environmentally friendly mode of transport. To ensure it stays that way, the management and the disposal of waste generated by the operation of these inland vessels is in Western Europe regulated...
The different competent authorities have updated the list of waste disposal facilities in Flanders.
Strategically located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, Greece has a thriving shipping industry. Dating back to ancient times, its fleet and ports always were key elements of its economic activity. During the 1960s,...
From June 2 to 6, Greek ship owners will once again welcome the international shipping community to Posidonia in Athens for five days of business, debate and social gatherings. For over 40 years this largest shipping event provides unique access...
A member of the international Aegean Group, Hellenic Environmental Center (H.E.C.) is one of the world’s largest companies in the field of liquid oily waste management. With its own fleet of tankers, tanker trucks and auxiliary equipment, H...
Antipollution, a leading Greek port reception facility manager, specialises in ship-generated solid non-hazardous, and hazardous waste management, oil spill response and recycling and recovery. It provides its services around the clock in all...
Garbage Management -- Marpol Annex V (Edition 2) provides training in how to comply with the revised MARPOL Annex V regulations as regards garbage collection, prrocessing, storage, disposal and record-keeping using the Garbage Record Book. It...
Darren Laguea has decided that - although he wishes to remain in the marine sector - it will be to pursue his own business interests. He therefore steps down as Euroshore’s chairman and Chief Operating Officer at Nature Group PLC.
Spain is the country with the longest coastline in the European Union (8,000 Km.). In addition to its geographic location close to the axis of one of the most important sea routes in the world, it benefits as a strategic area in international sea...
