The European Maritime Safety Agency has published an analysis of the delivery of ship-generated waste and cargo residues in 40 European ports.
The analysis, prepared by Danish consultancy Ramboll as part of a review of the EU directive on port reception facilities which dates back to 2000, indicates an apparent increase in ship-waste delivery from 2004 to 2008 for European ports, whilst a decrease was noted in 2009 and 2010.
In compliance with the Directive, all EU Member States have implemented an indirect fee into the port waste fee system. A number of individual models are in place in these ports, depending in some cases upon whether a waste fee system was in place before the EU Directive was enforced. Although most ports contract both the collection and treatment of ship-generated waste to private operators, the waste volume figures they produce are inconclusive as to which waste fee system model is the most efficient, especially as incentives for waste delivery vary dependent upon port and region.
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