Tag: sustainability

DP World London Gateway Port has been awarded The Planet Mark for demonstrating its commitment to carbon emissions reduction.

Costa Cruises released its 2015 Sustainability Report detailing the company’s sustainability efforts based on responsible innovation and the creation of value which enabled it to meet its corporate goal in the environmental field, to reduce its energy consumption by 4.8 percent year on year and its carbon footprint by 2.3 percent year on year in 2015.

The Ocean Cleanup, based in the Netherlands, has launched a containment boom to be tested in the North Sea. The boom, which is 100 m long, is designed, produced and delivered by DESMI.

London Ship Managers (LSM) has made substantial both economical and environmental savings across its fleet of 9000gt refrigerated cargo vessels following an extensive refrigerant plant optimisation programme carried out by Oceanic Technical Solutions.

Since 2010, all ships operating at ports in the EU and along the coasts of Canada and the USA are required to use fuel with a maximum of 0.1 per cent sulphur. Global car carrier Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics has now gone a step further by using low-sulphur fuel for all its vessels at all ports.

The Georgia Ports Authority has received a 2016 EPA Clean Air Excellence Award for its electric rubber-tired gantry crane program that will transfer its container handling equipment from diesel to electric power.

The UK's Port of Cromarty Firth has welcomed the biggest single delivery of wind turbine components to the port, to complete 17 complete wind turbine towers for the Corriemoille windfarm in Garve, Ross-shire.

Marine Harvest ASA, the world’s biggest Atlantic salmon producer, anticipates to raise fish inside a ship rather than the sea in an effort to boost production in difficult times where prices are near a record high.