Tag: environmental footprint

The Port of Long Beach's Board of Harbor Commissioners approved the Pier B On-Dock Rail Support Facility, greenlighting a project that will move cargo faster, with fewer environmental impacts. The project is part of the port's plan to stay competitive and minimize truck trips generated by anticipated cargo growth.

The introduction of invasive aquatic species as a result from international shipping has been identified as a significant threat to the world’s oceans and research suggests that 70-80% of introductions occur through biofouling. Madlene Wangrau of UK P&I Club, discusses how shippers could reduce biofouling risk.

The UK government released its 25 Year Environment Plan. The new plan aims to enhance UK's environmental policy, by protecting ecosystems, species, oceans, as well as natural processes and functions. UK also aims to launch its air quality strategy in 2018.

New York made an important step towards protecting the environment, as it sued five major oil companies, demanding ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP, Royal Dutch Shell and  ConocoPhillips pay for the cost of protecting the city from the arising threat that the climate change poses.

US flagged Great Lakes vessel operators are about to spend $65 million, in order to modernise their vessels at Great Lakes shipyards this winter and reduce their carbon footprint. As a result, the fleet will be ready to meet the needs of commerce during spring.

AMSA released a Marine Notice providing advice to ship owners and operators, regarding specific regulations to the transfer of oil cargoes between oil tankers at sea. The advice can be applied to domestic commercial vessels, regulated Australian vessels and foreign flagged vessels.

Recently, the US Coast Guard completed a blog series regarding ballast water. In these series, USCG focuses extensively on compliance and enforcement of the US ballast water regulations. The blog-series consisted of five articles, each dealing with a different issue.

The port of Tallinn informed that, starting in 2018, all ships that use LNG as their main fuel will be able to apply for a discount of 4% on tonnage fees when calling at harbours of the Port of Tallinn. The goal of this initiative is to promote the adoption of environmentally friendlier technologies in the Baltic Sea shipping sector.

Green Award certification scheme announced introduction of a Platinum label for inland navigation ships that keep abreast of the times and operate several hours a day with zero emissions of CO2, SOx, NOx and PM.