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Green Marine and the Association of Canadian Port Authorities (ACPA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding to advance environmental sustainability at Canadian Ports. ACPA and GREEN MARINE hereby agree and declare that this MOU will serve as a framework for increased cooperation between the two parties for the advancement of the Green Marine Environmental Program and related initiatives, with an overall view to contributing to the reduction of the marine industry's environmental footprint and encouraging the industry to continuously improve its environmental performance. The Green Marine Environmental Program is a voluntary sustainability program developed for the marine transpor-tation industry that provides a framework for ports, terminals, shipping companies and shipyards to reduce their environmental footprint. ACPA and Green Marine agree to work together to facilitate the participation of ACPA member ports and their tenants in the Green Marine Environmental Program. ACPA and GREEN MARINE will work together to advance the shared objective of improving the marine industry's environmental performance by identifying and collaborating to undertake specific actions or initiatives that will assist in: Promoting environmental performance beyond regulatory compliance and continuous improvement Benchmarking industry performance Continuing the development and recruiting efforts of the Green Marine program Developing consistent data reporting   ...

Baltic Ports Organization (BPO) is organizing the environmental seminar, 5th of Match in Gdansk. The seminar will deal with reception of sewage from passenger ships and waste from scrubbers. There will be one training session dedicated to the Self Diagnosis Method - a tool to check the environmental performance of the given port. Helsinki Commission is working with the new rules regarding the reception of the sewage in ports from passenger ships (ferries and cruises), which should be enforced in next years. According to the proposed regulations each of the ports having the passenger ships should have adequate port reception facilities to receive sewage from these ships. New rules should limit the discharge of sewage from ships directly to the Baltic Sea. This new development is causing many questions and uncertainties among the Baltic ports, e.g. about the technical solutions necessary for receiving large amounts of waste in short delivery time, which is a problem for sewage systems, definition of "adequate port facilities", rules for "no special fee system" for sewage. Moreover, in order to be prepared for the future obligations ports are planning the investments in quay facilities. "It is understandable that Baltic ports are following the process of ...

Baltic Ports Organization (BPO) is organizing the environmental seminar, 5th of Match in Gdansk. The seminar will deal with reception of sewage from passenger ships and waste from scrubbers.

Revision to MARPOL Annex IV re passenger ship discharge requirements

Turkey to implement a revised Pollution Fine Tariff for 2013

HELCOM Maritime meeting looks at alien species and sewage in ports

Earth focus: Exposing the Maritime Waste Oil Epidemic

EPA : New no discharge areas in Massachusetts

Effective 28 March 2012 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has issued a Fact Sheet for the California No Discharge Zone Prohibiting Vessel Sewage in all California Marine Waters.Effective 28 March 2012 the following vessels will be prohibited from discharging all sewage, whether treated or not, while in California marine waters: Large Passenger Vessels of 300 gross tons or greater that have berths or overnight accommodations for passengers.Large Oceangoing Vessels of 300 gross tons or greater, including private, commercial, government, or military vessels equipped with a holding tank with remaining capacity or containing sewage generated prior to entry in to California marine waters. For more information, click here.Source: The UK P&I Club

Effective from 28 March 2012 The state of California has announced a no-discharge zone (NDZ) for passenger vessels of 300 grt or more having berths or overnight accommodations, and oceangoing vessels of 300 grt or more, with available holding tank capacity, or containing sewage generated while the vessel was outside of the marine waters of the state of California.To ensure compliance with these new local rules, ship owners are advised to do the following:Vessels without dedicated sewage holding tank(s) may enter Californian waters and discharge treated sewage from sewage treatment system as before. Vessels without sewage treatment system, only holding tank(s), are not allowed to discharge any sewage to sea inside the NDZ.Vessels with sewage treatment plant and dedicated sewage holding tank(s) (treated or untreated): The ship's holding tank(s) must be "de minimis" discharged prior to entering California waters. The vessel must refrain from discharging any sewage (treated or untreated) as long as there is remaining holding tank capacity.If the vessel reaches maximum holding tank capacity, discharge of "properly treated sewage" is only allowed through a type-approved sewage treatment system.If the vessel is entering the NDZ with sewage in its holding tank(s), the vessel is not allowed to discharge any ...