Pollution Control

Denmark’s DESMI Ro-Clean A/S and Finland’s SeaHow, both key players in the global oil spill solutions and oil spill response vessels market, have announced a new strategic partnership.

Members of the International Salvage Union (ISU) provided 213 services to vessels carrying more than 2.5 million tonnes of potentially polluting cargoes during operations in 2016.

Global environmental solutions company, Lamor Corporation, has demonstrated an innovative new way to recover oil in Halifax, Canada, which is based on the fish net trawling principle.

Recycling Technologies (RT) has developed a process which can boost the recycling rate of plastic waste to produce a new fuel.

According to Belgium-headquartered Subsea Technologies, a pioneer in the development of hard hull coating systems and hull and propeller cleaning systems, the entry into force of the Ballast Water Convention this September…

A new oil spill response workboat has been produced by Portuguese company – SWB, Seismic Workboats, Lda which is headquartered in Peniche.

The Moskito oil salvage tool, developed in Norway by Miko Marine AS has recovered its first hydrocarbons from a half submerged ship in Chile.

According to Capt. Brian McJury, a Master Mariner at London Offshore Consultants, Paris, the response can be very enthusiastic in a small ports when a pollution incident occurs.