Reducing and recycling ships’ waste remains a serious topic in trying to make marine business greener reducing its carbon footprint, and being more sensitive to environmental considerations. This workshop provides business information...
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.
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 port of Amsterdam already banned on vapour ventilations, due to their impact on the air quality in the city. MAIN responded to this ban by offering inland barges the service of its vapour recovery installation.
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,...
The European Sustainable Shipping Forum (ESSF) met on March 12th in Brussels to discuss the use of scrubbers in the perspective of the recent Sulphur Directive implementation. To speed up a break-through in the debate, EUROSHORE has offered to...
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...
With the stricter sulphur limits applicable from the 1st of January 2015, the marine industry now faces the challenge of adopting new technologies and/or operational practices. Introduced by the International Maritime Organization (IMO), the...
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...
Apart from the publication of the ship recycling regulation (cfr. further in this issue), 2013 saw little or no progress in European marine environmental legislation, even though EU-regulations concerning ship generated waste and cargo residues...
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...
As of the 1st of January 2014 new MARPOL amendments entered into force, including a revised Annex III Regulations, and the United States Caribbean Sea Emission Control Area.
SERTEGO SA is a Spanish URBASER Group company dedicated to industrial hazardous and non- hazardous waste management. SERTEGO´s global nature, enables it to completely and efficiently solve any problem or requirement on waste management.It...
A worldwide e-services platform to standardize and ease ship waste management. Ship Waste Agency® SWANET® is the first co-operative eco-responsibility platform, aiming to ease waste management. All operators involved in waste process will...
Pollution in the world’s seas poses a significant threat to marine life and is recognized as one of the global community’s most pressing environmental concerns. Ecoslops Portugal SA offers a reliable, comprehensive service for the...
On the 10th of December 2013, the EU has published in the Official Journal the new 1257/2013 Regulation on Ship Recycling, based on the Hong Kong Convention which the IMO adopted in 2009.
In October 2013 EMSA published a study addressing illegal discharges in the Maritime...
Our seas and oceans are increasingly becoming the waste dump of the planet. Plastics, mostly packaging waste, are the key component of marine litter. It floats in huge quantities on the sea surface before it sinks to the seabed or degrades into...
With its favourable strategic location close to the main sea trade routes, it's no wonder Portugal can boast a rich naval and maritime history.
With 12 year of experience, Eco-Oil provides the reception and treatment of slop-oil, sludge and tank cleaning wastes in respect to the best available techniques and looking for the continuous reduction of the environmental impacts. Since 2001,...
When loading and discharging oil, gases can escape from the fuel in tanks and pipelines. Vapour recycling facilities ingest these gases, and condense them to liquids that are reintegrated in the product flow. Other techniques use absorption on...
The approval of the new European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) in July 2013 for the period 2014 – 2020 by the Committee on Fisheries (PECH) of the European Parliament creates new opportunities to co-finance projects for the collection...
Following an appeal from Intercargo, the IMO now has eased rules on hold waste water dumping when no compliant portside facilities exist, and allow – in some cases - its discharge outside designated areas, 12 miles from shore until 2016....
