Maritime: Questions on EU port waste

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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Expotec GmbH - Germany, Rostock - International Trade Fair for the Maritime Industry in the Baltic Sea area

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Germany, Rostock - International Trade Fair for the Maritime Industry in the Baltic Sea area

The 3rd Future Conference of the Maritime Industry of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania will be held along with the trade fair Baltic Future on November 19, 2008. The conference is organized by the Department of Economic Affairs of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and the Maritime Board of the Rostock Chamber of Commerce. The proposed topics of the conference are a perfect supplement to the core themes of the trade fair: Maritime logistics, shipbuilding- and supplier industry as well as offshore wind power. Rostock Business will commit itself even stronger to offshore wind power. The company has already confirmed both: Cooperation with the Offshore-workshop of the Maritime Future Conference and a presentation at the trade show. Four lectures and a panel discussion will deal with the extension of medium-sized maritime industries in order to come to a linked-up production within complex superstructures for offshore wind power. Topics of high interest such as specific manpower training in the specialized sectors of this branch of industry will also be discussed.