Pollution Control – Page 22
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'Clean Seas Award' to Pollution Fighters
Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics has won the Lloyd''s List ''Clean Seas Award'' for the second year running for its continuing efforts to reduce the environmental impact of its deep sea operations.
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NewsEMSA Takes Spill Response to Atlantic
Lamor and Clean Globe International, member companies of the Lamor Group, will establish an oil spill centre equipment stockpile at Sines in Portugal. For the three year contract, awarded to Lamor in a EU tender, the 3,000dwt chemical/oil tanker MT Galp Marine will be contracted and pre-fitted as an occasional ...
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NewsPort of LA CAAPs Air Pollution
The Port of Los Angeles in California USA and the local South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD) are partnering on a demonstration project to use electrically powered tractors to tow cargo containers from the Port to local warehouses and rail yards. The $527,000 initiative, funded by the Port and ...
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'Action Plan' for European Pollution
Salvors are seeking a meeting with EU Fisheries and Maritime Affairs Commissioner Joe Borg to present their case for the adoption of new measures to reduce the risk of another spill disaster in European waters. In response to the EU''s Green Paper on Future Maritime Policy, the International Salvage Union ...
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NewsTackling Light Pollution in Ports
Ports are potentially hazardous areas by virtue of their activities, operations and the interaction of vehicles, machinery and people. Ensuring that lighting systems provide a safe working environment is essential, as is the need to comply with light pollution requirements.
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NewsDevon Develops Emergendcy Marine Planning
There is a growing awareness of the economic and environmental pressures affecting the UK''s coastal zone and marine environment. Britain''s coastline stretches over 17,000 kilometres and is under threat like never before.
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Eye in the Sky for Oil Spill Control
The use of satellite imagery to manage oil spills at sea is set to improve due to the award of a 5m baseline services contract to the MARCOAST consortium by the European Space Agency (ESA).
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NewsVikoma Pollution Control and Recovery Kit for Kenya
Southampton UK based oil pollution control and recovery equipment manufacturer Vikoma International Ltd has signed a $500,000 contract to supply equipment and specialised oil spill response training to the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA), which will use it for offshore, harbour and coastal protection.
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Marine Pollution Prevention Campaign Conducted
The 22 maritime authorities of Paris Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control, which includes EU members plus Canada, Croatia, Iceland, Norway, and the Russian Federation, have conducted a concentrated inspection campaign focussing on how requirements for preventing marine pollution from ships (MARPOL73/78, Annex 1) have been implemented. The three ...
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NewsGet Plastered Safely at Seawork
If there were a Long Distance Exhibitor Award at Seawork, Miko Marine AS of Oslo would be in the running, but the company is no stranger to marine activities in the UK.
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NewsTimely Response Speeds Pollution Clean-up
One little known aspect of the grounding of the tanker Tasman Spirit off Karachi port is that concern for the health of pollution control workers led to the cessation of beach clean-up operations.
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Big Year for ISU Oil Recovery
Members of the International Salvage Union recovered some 875,000 tons of pollutants during salvage operations last year. Emergency assistance was provided worldwide for 247 vessels with cargoes and bunkers threatening pollution.
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NewsBrits Lower the Boom in America
Two exhibitors at the recent Spill 06 event in London collaborated earlier this year when UK based Oil Limited took its newly developed RB400 rigid boom system across the Atlantic to be tested by Ohmsett, America''s National Oil Spill Response Test Facility in New Jersey.
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Lamor Wins EMSA Spill Response Contract
Finnish environmental protection specialist Lamor Corporation AB has been awarded an international tender by the EU funded European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) for improving oil spill response readiness in the entire Baltic Sea. The three year stand-by response readiness contract is worth more than 4m and will result in Lamor ...
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NewsSuccess for First Sea Water Scrubber
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.
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News'V' Boom's Victorious Pollution Trial
Cornwall County Council''s 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 centre in Falmouth docks and specialist companies Triskel Marine Ltd (TML) and Transas were drafted in to advise ...
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NewsPollution Punished in Port of Southampton
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.
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NewsUK Pollution Response Contract Award
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 of a serious pollution incident at sea. The firm, which was awarded the contract by the Maritime and ...
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NewsRapid Response Rescues Turkish Reservoir
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 steadily building inventory at their production facility, thus enhancing their efforts to establish other Environmental Action Centres (EAC) ...
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NewsSpecialised Pump Deployed in 'Prestige' Oil Recovery
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 sealed by a submarine to prevent further contamination but a large quantity of heavy viscosity oil remained inside.
