Pollution

SEA GUARDIAN Threat & Risk Assessment 05 Feb – 13 Feb 2025

Brief Update No 25/05 Date: 13 Feb 2025

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This document has been approved for distribution by Sea Guardian S.G. Ltd / Operations Department. The provided Intel and information derive from open sources, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), the Joint Maritime Information Center (JMIC) and United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) respective WebPages and products. All rights reserved. No part of this Risk Assessment may be reproduced in any form: electronic, mechanical, or...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2025/02/14/sea-guardian-threat-risk-assessment-05-feb-13-feb-2025/

Wärtsilä and Elomatic sign licensing and cooperation agreement on Elogrid™ technology

Wärtsilä and Elomatic have signed a licensing and cooperation agreement covering the intellectual property rights, technology, and use of trademark of Elomatic’s unique Elogrid solution © Elomatic

Wärtsilä Corporation, 12 February 2025 at 10:00 EET – Technology group Wärtsilä and international consulting and engineering company Elomatic have signed a licensing and cooperation agreement covering the intellectual property rights, technology, and use of trademark of Elomatic’s unique Elogrid...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2025/02/12/wartsila-and-elomatic-sign-licensing-and-cooperation-agreement-on-elogrid-technology/

GreenSeas Trust installs new bin trio on Qatar’s Pearl Island to help cut marine plastic pollution

Leading marine conservation charity, GreenSeas Trust, is proud to announce, three bilingual BinsForGreenSeas have been installed on Pearl Island in Qatar to reduce litter and stop plastics from entering the sea.

Located off the coast of Doha, Pearl Island is a popular tourist destination boasting sophistication and luxury.

The GreenSeas Trust bins have been positioned at key waterfront locations in the island’s marina, an area popular with tourists and the yachting community.  The bins will...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2025/02/11/greenseas-trust-installs-new-bin-trio-on-qatars-pearl-island-to-help-cut-marine-plastic-pollution/

IMO agrees on a revised action plan to tackle marine plastic litter

The IMO’s Sub-Committee on Pollution Prevention and Response have agreed on the draft 2025 Action Plan to Address Marine Plastic Litter from Ships, with a view to its approval by the Marine Environment Protection Committee at its upcoming session from 7-11 April 2025 (MEPC 83). 
This milestone was achieved along with other key outcomes at the 12th session of the Sub-Committee on Pollution Prevention and Response, which was held at IMO Headquarters in London from 27 to 31 January 2025. The...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2025/02/07/imo-agrees-on-a-revised-action-plan-to-tackle-marine-plastic-litter/

Turkish CSOs take legal action to ensure Environmental Impact Assessment of the ship recycling sector in Aliağa

Picture Credit: Emirhan Durmaz / Evrensel 

Turkish Civil Society Organisations take legal action to ensure Environmental Impact Assessment of the ship recycling sector in Aliağa

On 10 January 2024 a coalition of organisations, including Aegean Environment and Culture Platform (EGEÇEP), İzmir Bar Association, TMMOB Chamber of Architects, İzmir Medical Chamber, and eight concerned citizens, filed a lawsuit against Turkiye’s Ministry of Environment, Urbanisation, and Climate Change. The legal action...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2025/01/31/turkish-csos-take-legal-action-to-ensure-environmental-impact-assessment-of-the-ship-recycling-sector-in-aliaga/

Pressure grows for Baltic wide ban on scrubber water discharges

The pressure for a Baltic wide ban on the discharge of wash water from ships’ exhaust gas cleaning systems, or scrubbers, is growing. And advocates of the Baltic ban have hopes that it could snowball into wider international action at the IMO.

Denmark will ban scrubber water discharges

As we reported recently, from July 1, 2025, the discharge of exhaust gas scrubber water from ships will be prohibited in waters up to 22 kilometers (about 12 nautical miles) off the Danish coast. In announcing...

https://www.marinelog.com/legal/environment/pressure-grows-for-baltic-wide-ban-on-scrubber-water-discharges/

USCG lab identifies responsible party in NY/NJ tar ball pollution

A spill that happened on the evening of Nov. 22 during an oil transfer at an oil facility in Bayonne, N.J. has been identified as the source of an incident that subsequently saw tar balls discovered on the New Jersey coast from Sea Bright to Asbury Park, additional pollution discovered on the shoreline north of Coney Island Creek in the Gravesend Bay area of Brooklyn, as well as tar balls at Fort Wadsworth beach on Staten Island.

The Coast Guard and Vane Brothers Company responded and monitored...

https://www.marinelog.com/inland-coastal/uscg-lab-identifies-responsible-party-in-ny-nj-tar-ball-pollution/

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