Pollution Control

Scandinavian shipping company Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL) has released the industry’s first ever certified GHG emissions inventory report, showing that it managed to cut its green house gas emissions by 32% last…

The International Salvage Union (ISU) has announced the results of its annual Pollution Prevention Survey for 2009, which show a significant increase in the tonnages of pollutants salved in 2009 compared with…

The International Bunker Industry Association (IBIA) has moved quickly to dispel the apparent confusion currently surrounding implementation of the EU directive requiring all ships to use low-sulphur fuel while at berth in…

The Copenhagen climate change summit failed to reach a legally binding agreement, and instead merely took a ‘decision to note’ a non-binding accord, reports UK law firm Clyde & Co LLP. The…

Over the last few months, during the build up the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) in Copenhagen, global fossil fuel emissions have been more intensely scrutinized across all industry sectors, writes…

In May 2008 Aanderaa Data Instruments AS (AADI) entered an agreement with The Norwegian Clean Sea Association for Operating Companies (NOFO) to develop a small drifting buoy that has similar drift characteristics…

AkzoNobel chief Eexecutive Hans Wijers recently threw his weight behind ‘ The Copenhagen Communiqué on Climate Change’ by adding his name to those of hundreds of other global business leaders who are…

Wä rtsilä ' s sulphur oxides (SOx) scrubber has been granted the Sulphur Emission Control Area (SECA) Compliance Certificate by the classification societies Det Norske Veritas and Germanisher Lloyd following successful testing.

A new oil combat vessel which is being built at the STX Europe yard in Finland will be the first ship to be installed with a new box cooler anti-fouling system which…

Vikoma International, part of the Aberdeen UK based Energy Environmental Group, has been chosen to work with NOFO (Norwegian Clean Seas Association for Operating Companies) to develop new solutions for oil spill…

Work is underway in preparation to build the first of a new Multipurpose Oil Recovery & Rescue Catamaran (MORCAT) design which will also have firefighting, SAR, emergency standby and towing, hospital ship,…

The order was secured with Group De Cloedt, in Belgium, for 1000m of HI Sprint 2000 inflation boom supplied on four hydraulic reels. The contract, worth more than €400,000, will be delivered…

The Green Ship of the Future, the Danish maritime initiative, has received the International Environmental Award from the Sustainable Shipping organisation for being the most environmentally friendly shipping initiative. Sustainable Shipping is…

The European Commission’ s (EC) EuropeAid Cooperation Office has awarded a contract to support the development of a common security management, maritime safety and ship pollution prevention project for the Black and…

Isle of Wight UK based Vikoma International has launched a unique star disc skimmer designed specifically for recovering highly viscous oil.

Isle of Wight based Vikoma has won the latest EMSA (European Maritime Safety Agency) contract for the North Sea. The announcement was made yesterday at the Interspill 2009 exhibition and conference, which…

A report released last week at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) says that plastics may be more hazardous to our seas than originally thought. ‘ Plastics in daily…

London based International Apparatus Consultants Limited will be on Stand 233 at Seawork 2009 providing information on HNS and oil pollution equipment, imbiber beads, and oil pollution control boats, including the ‘…

Ro-Clean Desmi attended the Interspill 2009 exhibition in Marseille last month with the intention of meeting customers, and also launching their new skimmer, the Desmi Giant Octopus.