Pollution Control
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Tackling the rising tide of plastic pollution
14/05/2019UK based workboat specialists Water Witch are leading designers in specialist trash retrieval and waterway cleanup craft for Ports and Marinas. READ more
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Acoustic monitoring protects marine mammals
02/05/2019Sercel has announced that deployment of its QuietSea Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) system has been extended to the UK. READ more
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Air quality in Naples suffers from ships’ emissions
30/04/2019An environmentalist group, Cittadini per l’Aria, has tested the air quality in Naples and has called Italy to support a Mediterranean Emission Control Area (MedECA). READ more
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Sniffing drone to catch sulphurous offenders
23/04/2019The maritime authorities in Denmark have deployed a large drone with the capability of sulphur sniffing writes Dag Pike. READ more
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Modular catamaran workboat
16/04/2019A new multi-role workboat from pollution control specialists Desmi is claimed to be able to shift operation mode within an hour. READ more
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Green Thessaloniki
09/04/2019Striving for sustainability, the Greek Port of Thessaloniki has joined the Green Award program to attract and reward green, high quality ships. READ more
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Noise emissions best practise guide launches
03/04/2019A best practice guide for ports on measuring, labelling and mitigating noise emissions of vessels at ports has been launched. READ more
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Oslo’s zero emission waste collection boat
02/04/2019Norway’s Port of Oslo is to build a fully electric working boat designed for efficient collection of waste at the water surface. READ more
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Marine plastic has a cost to humans too
01/04/2019Scientists have revealed that plastic floating in the sea is costing human society hundreds if not thousands of billions of dollars every year in damaged and lost resources, with knock on effects for our health and wellbeing. READ more
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120 tons of sea debris
20/03/2019Safeen, a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi Ports, has collected over 120 tons of floating sea debris in Abu Dhabi waters last year, recycling more than ten tons of the collected material. READ more
