Tag: waste management

ACO Marine announced that it is contacted by Reliance Defence and Engineering, India’s largest engineering and shipbuilding group, to supply its wastewater management package for installation to a new coastguard training vessel building for the Indian Coast Guard.

Europe’s most modern ship waste-water reception facility went into operation at Kiel’s Ostseekai, on June 14th, the Port of Hambug announced. The new facility, which cost well over € 1.8 million, increases current waste-water reception capability tenfold to as much as 300 m³ an hour.

Ecoslops announced that is has signed an agreement with TOTAL Group to set up a maritime transport induced oil residue waste-processing unit at La Mède, near Marseilles, in the Bouches-du-Rhône. For this goal, the two companies had signed a Memorandum of Understanding in September 2016, and conducted technical and commercial studies.

The UK’s first All Weather Terminal at ABP’s port of Hull was awarded a 100 tonnes Achievement Award for recycling wood with the Humber Wood Recycling Project. ABP is committed to help reduce and make use of waste, during trading, that would otherwise be destined to landfill.

The European Commission requested Austria, Cyprus, Portugal and Romania to fully transpose EU law on port reception facilities for ship-generated waste and cargo residues. This Directive amended the EU rules, that require ships to notify information before entry into port, such as the volumes and types of waste to be delivered and storage capacity on-board.

ACO Marine’s Mark Beavis highlights how wastewater management presents a challenging dilemma when designing a ship, that can impact in a significant way a vessel’s operational flexibility. Mr. Beavis says it is crucial to not only meeting stringent wastewater requirements, but also to optimising the operational performance of the vessel.

The twelve major ports of India, under the Ministry of Shipping, have been ranked on sanitation parameters, based on the efforts undertaken by them to counter waste generating sources. The ‘Swachhta Pakhwada’ campaign brought the focus on the setting up of ‘Green Ports’ for sustainable, environment friendly, long term development of ports.

The UK MCA has issued a Marine Guidance Note to inform on the revised waste notification form which is to be used by ships’ masters when delivering waste to port reception facilities.

Australian Maritime Safety Authority issued a notice, in order to provide general information to shipowners, masters and crews on recent changes to the format of the Garbage Record Book, in accordance with MARPOL Annex V.