Pollution Control

The first sea water scrubber to be installed on board a commercial vessel is now operational on P& O Ferries Pride of Kent which sails on the Dover to Calais route.

Southampton UK magistrates recently upheld a summons issued by Associated British Ports (ABP) against the owners of MV Autofreighter, who admitted polluting the waters of the harbour earlier this year.

Cornwall County Councils Emergency Planning staff were called into action last month to respond, for exercise purposes, to a major oil pollution incident. A full emergency team was assembled in the incident…

Specialist incident response company DV Howells Ltd hasbeen awarded a major contract to store the equipment and run the teams that would be drafted in by the UK government in the event…

Finland based oil spill response equipment manufacturer the Lamor Corporation understands that effective rapid response can mitigate against environmental damage and reduce clean-up costs dramatically. With that in mind, Lamor has been…

After the Prestige sank off Spain in November 2002, contaminating several hundred miles of coastline, it settled in 3,838m of water and continued to leak oil. Cracks in the hull were initially…

Denmark based oil pollution response equipment specialists Ro-Clean Desmi have fared well at recent skimmer tests formulated by the US Coast Guard and carried out at the OHMSETT national testing facility in…

Western Europe has been the focus of regulatory developments in recent years concerning accidental pollution from ships. The total losses of the Erika and, subsequently, the Prestige have done much to harden…

By the end of this year, four ships equipped with the JLMD fast oil recovery system will be sailing the seas. The first, a tanker belonging to Italian shipowner Navigazione Montanari ,…

Fugro Engineering Services of Basingstoke UK is conducting a series of contamination surveys for Serco Assurance at the Rosyth Dockyard in Fife.

A major operation to remove oil from the wreck of HMS Royal Oak continues this summer. The warship was torpedoed by a German U-boat in 1939 while lying at anchor off Scapa…

An ambitious scheme to clean up the River Tyne has been given approval. The River Clean-Up Project , led by the Port of tyne and managed by Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council ,…

Following an EU Tender, seawork2004 exhibitor Vikoma International has won an order to supply 600m of Hd Boom on reels to the Maritime and Coastguard Agency s anti-pollution stockpile. The Southampton based…

Sweden based Marinfloc AB claims to be the first and only company currently manufacturing an Emulsion Breaking Bilge Water Cleaning System (EBBWCS) that gives shipowners and shipyards a solution to fulfil the…

Earlier this year Westfalia Separator launched its new WTC 2 high speed centrifuge for separating oil from bilge water down to 5ppm. The new machine can treat up to 1m 3/hr of…