Environment/Green Issues
News associated with environmental, green and reneable energy issues linked to ports. Includes efforts to reduces port and ship emissions such as cold ironing. Application of national and European Union environmental and renewable energy policies. This includes new facilities for the production of ammonia, biofuels, hydrogen and vegetable oils.
Two new signatories to the Malta MedFish4Ever Declaration
Brussels, Belgium (PortSEurope) June 1, 2017 – On 16 and 31 May respectively the Ambassadors to the European Union of the People’s Democratic...
Limassol municipality looks to reduce port pollution
Limassol, Cyprus (PortSEurope) May 31, 2017 – Limassol Municipality is looking to take steps to reduce sea pollution in the port which is mainly caused...
NGO to carry out unofficial referendum on cruise ships in Venice lagoon
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) May 30, 2017 – Italian non-governmental organisation No Grandi Navi (NGV), which seeks to ban the entry of big cruise ships in...
Barcelona port launches two projects for promotion of LNG as alternative fuel
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) May 29, 2017 – Barcelona port has launched two projects to promote liquefied natural gas (LNG) as an alternative fuel, which...
Huelva port starts scientific survey on effects of dredging on estuary’s ecosystem
Huelva, Spain (PortSEurope) May 29, 2017 – The president of Huelva port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Huelva), Javier Barrero, and Professor of Ecology...
French Port of Marseille Fos will pay premiums to ecological ships
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) May 28, 2017 – The Port of Marseille Fos will implement from July 1, 2017 special incentives for environmentally friendly...
Castellón port prepares for handling of LW Wind Power wind turbines
Castellón, Spain (PortSEurope) May 26, 2017 – Castellón port is preparing for the start of the export project of Danish company LM Wind Power that will...
Barcelona port to test natural gas-fired power generator this summer
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) May 25, 2017 – Barcelona port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Barcelona) plans to start tests of a natural gas-fired power...
Sulphur emissions at Marseille port decline 40% in 2010-2016
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) May 19, 2017 – Emissions of sulphur, particularly related to fuel oil, have decreased by 40% between 2010 and 2016 in the...
Cartagena port takes part in waste management conference
Cartagena, Spain (PortSEurope) May 18, 2017 – The Spanish city of Murcia hosted last week the “Waste management and circular economy” conference,...
Valencia port calls tender for installation of dust protection barriers in Sagunto
Sagunto, Spain (PortSEurope) May 17, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) has called a tender for the installation in Sagunto of...
Castellón port puts into operation anticontamination barrier
Castellón, Spain (PortSEurope) May 16, 2017 – Castellón port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Castellón) has invested €170,000 ($188,500) in the...
Innovative blue growth projects join European Maritime Day 2017
Brussels, Belgium (PortSEurope) May 14, 2017 – Fifteen innovative new blue growth projects funded through the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF)...
EC says Valencia port’s logistics zone complies with environmental rules
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 10, 2017 – In a written response to the question asked by Marina Albiol, a member of the Confederal Group of the European...
Valencia port to host conference on usage of LNG as fuel
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 10, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) will host on May 18 a conference within the framework...
Event – European Environmental Ports Conference 2017 – Antwerp, Belgium, on June 7-8
Antwerp, Belgium (PortSEurope) May 8, 2017 – The European Environmental Ports Conference 2017 will take place in Antwerp, Belgium, on June 7-8, 2017,...
Vigo port receives innovation award for Blue Growth strategy
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) April 25, 2017 – A little over a year after the official presentation of the Blue Growth initiative that Vigo port launched, the...