Tag: sustainability

From January 21, interested parties can apply for funding through the Incentive Scheme Climate-Friendly Shipping. Specifically, the Port of Rotterdam Authority has allocated five million euros for this reason. This incentive meets the goals of the World Ports Climate Action Program, which was initiated in September 2018. The scheme will run until the end of 2022.

A team of almost 30 global companies launched the Alliance to End Plastic Waste (AEPW) earlier in January, committing over $1 billion to advance solutions to eliminate plastic waste, mostly in the ocean environment. In this video, Martin Brudermüller, CEO of BASF, one of the co-founding companies, explains why the alliance is so important. 

International Intelligence Hunt project has been kicked off for the 5th time by SeaFocus in collaboration with Nor-Shipping. This project delivers company case solutions created by international university student teams, who work in close contact with the case companies.

Port of Rotterdam published a statement on a partnership between Pondera Development and SIF Holding Nederland, 'GE Renewable Energy and Future Wind', concerning the installation of the first prototype of the Haliade-X 12 MW wind turbine at Rotterdam-Maasvlakte in the summer of 2019. The collaboration includes a 5-year-test period and a 15-year period of full operation and maintenance. 

The cross value chain Alliance to End Plastic Waste (AEPW), currently made up of nearly 30 member companies, seeks to develop and bring to scale solutions that will minimize and manage plastic waste and promote solutions for used plastics by helping to enable a circular economy.

The Autonomous Operator of Parisian Transports published a press release according to which sixteen among Europe's major companies initiate to push forward the development of sustainable finance, setting up the Corporate Forum on Sustainable Finance, 'The Forum'. It is designed as a permanent network based on exchanging ideas and views and unites crucial 'Green Issuers'.

The CMA CGM Group, a worldwide leading shipping group, has decided to support the financial and industrial development of Agricool, specializing in urban agriculture, based on recycled containers, in order to enable it to launch its industrialization phase. Several containers are currently being tested. The Group is now the main supplier of containers and the primary logistics and supply partner of this young company.

2019 kicked off with the data collection on fuel oil consumption, alternative mechanisms to comply with the 2020 Sulphur cap, the EU Ship Recycling Regulation, the IMSBC Code 2017 amendment as well as amendments designating North Sea and Baltic Sea as ECAs. With many more regulations and developments still yet to come, nations from all across the globe, ship operators and crew are going through a key period because of ten major issues that will have significant impact over the next ten years in the shipping industry.

The Belmont Forum called for proposals on 'Transdisciplinary Research for Ocean Sustainability'. Along with Future Earth and JPI Oceans, they aim to gather researchers and other expertise to advance sustainable use of the ocean and minimize the effects of climate change. The deadline for project pre-registration is 31 January 2019.

Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri has entered into a preliminary collaboration agreement with financial institution Cassa depositi e prestiti (CDP) and natural gas infrastructure company Snam, aiming to implement medium-term strategic projects for the innovation of port facilities in Italy and of sustainable technologies applied to maritime transport.