Tag: environmental footprint

The Port of San Diego has started a unique project, as it will recycle a type of waste that is often left behind as litter - cigarette butts. This project aims to reduce the amount of discarded cigarette butts on Port tidelands, and it will help recycle the waste into useful products. The Port installed 31 cigarette butt receptacles along its facilities.

KfW IPEX-Bank became the first German bank to join the initiative "Responsible Ship Recycling Standards". This initiative aims to include scrapping clauses in accordance with international standards into loan agreements, and wants shipping companies to provide at least the minimum standards of occupational safety and environmental protection when scrapping their ships

The International Transport Forum released a report, reviewing port-based incentive schemes to reduce shipping emissions, such as environmentally differentiated port fees. The report wants to determine how the financial incentives at the port level could provide important lessons for the design of decarbonisation policies for the maritime sector.

The inaugural SAFETY4SEA Conference in Cyprus successfully concluded on Tuesday 17th of April, at Columbia Plaza in Limassol, attracting 220 delegates from a total of 115 organizations. The pro bono event brought together global experts who focused on the recent and future challenges toward safe, smart and green shipping excellence and sustainable shipping.

NYK will issue green bonds, especially the Unsecured Corporate Bonds No.40, in a public offering in the Japanese market in May this year. NYK becomes the first company that publishes green bonds in the international shipping industry. In a green bond the proceeds are used for funding environment-friendly projects.

The European Commission has approved, under EU State aid rules, a Portuguese tonnage tax scheme, which, together with a scheme to support seafarers, will encourage ship registration in Europe and contribute to the competitiveness of maritime transport, while preserving employment and promoting high environmental standards.

The City Council of Amsterdam officially approved the ‘Westpoort Noise Dispersion Plan’, on 14 March 2018, dividing the available noise zones in the Westpoort section of the Port among the plots of land located in the area. The plan discloses exactly how much noise zones are allocated to the plots located on the industrial site.

Shell has a long-term lease with the Port for the operation of the terminal until 2023, which can be extended by a new 30-year lease. The proposed project needs to comply with Marine Oil Terminal Engineering and Maintenance Standards, which are standards that apply to all marine oil terminals in California.

Hong-Kong based Wallem Ship Management shared best practices with respect to energy efficiency on ships, including energy saving systems onboard that reduce environmental footprint, as well as energy efficiency management, such as weather routing or trim optimization.

In 2012, the Cook Islands announced the creation of world's largest single-country marine park -  approximately 1.1 million square kilometers (km2) of the southern Cook Islands’ Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) - a vast swathe of ocean almost twice the size of France. In 2014, the International Union for Conservation of Nature recommended that we need to protect at least 30 percent of the world's oceans to effectively preserve biodiversity and then Mexico created a marine reserve larger than Greece; a ‘safe haven’ – as many say -  in Pacific Ocean! Thus, are marine parks the answer to saving ocean wildlife? On 25 November 2017, Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto officially signed a decree to protect the biodiversity of the region by creating North America's largest marine protected area around the Revillagigedo Islands, prohibiting mining, fishing, and tourism development on or near the islands. The park was praised by the World Wildlife Fund and British investor and philanthropist Richard Branson. Technically part of the Mexican state of Colima, the Revillagigedo Islands or Revillagigedo Archipelago are a group of four volcanic islands in the Pacific Ocean, known for their unique ecosystem. They are located where the cold waters of the California current meet ...