Tag: Denmark

Danish Maritime Days has just released program including more than 40 independent events focused on Innovation, Sustainability, Open Markets, Security and Safety. Danish Maritime Days takes place for the third consecutive year on 24-28 October 2016.

The Danish Minister for Environment and Food has taken the first steps towards rules on scrapping ships that ensure that people and the environment are better protected globally when ships are broken up and recycled.

The Danish Shipowners Association has initiated a study on CO2 shipping emissions with support from the Danish Maritime Fund to investigate ways for further reducing the shipping carbon footprint.

The Danish Parliament has passed a bill for the country to have an overall, holistic maritime spatial plan for the Danish sea areas. It has been decided that the Danish Maritime Authority will be responsible for implementing the new act on maritime spatial planning .

The port of Frederikshavn announced that the EU-financed LNG Bunkering Project 'The Nordic Maritime Hub' project has been officially launched in Denmark. The project consortium, consisting of Port of Frederikshavn, Kosan Crisplant and Stena Line, will meet the demands of the modern maritime sector by improving the port access facilities, establishing shore side power supply to be used by e.g. Stena Line’s ferries, and by establishing bunkering facilities for alternative fuels.

The Bunker Holding Group is joining forces with strong Danish partners in the green-energy market to build a production facility in Frederikshavn which will produce LNG for the maritime sectors in Denmark and Sweden.

The Environmental Protection Agency and the Danish Maritime Authority have published an action plan for 2016 with the purpose of strengthening enforcement of regulations on ships' sulphur emissions in both Denmark and the SECA countries.

 Since the turn of the year, ships have had to comply with new and stricter environmental requirements. As a result, the amount of harmful sulphur in the air over Denmark has more than halved. An 'artificial nose' fitted on the Great Belt Bridge is checking whether ships are complying with the rules.New international regulations require ships in the North Sea and Baltic Sea to run on clean fuels with a low content of sulphur.To stop ships from ignoring the rules and continuing to pollute using illicit fuels, the Ministry of the Environment and Food has intensified its ship pollution control. An 'artificial nose' - called a sniffer - has been fitted on the Great Belt Bridge. The nose can detect when ships passing under the bridge are using the wrong type of fuel.The first air measurements from the sniffer reveal that 98% of ships are complying with the sulphur requirements. Furthermore, according to a new report from the Danish Centre for Environment and Energy (DCE) at Aarhus University, the content of sulphur in the air over Denmark has been reduced by up to 60% overall since the turn of the year."Sulphur and particles are harmful to humans, so it is ...

Danish Shipowners propose maritime growth plan

Danish Shipowners Association has just published the biannual publication "Shipping in numbers