WASTE RECEPTION FACILITIES IN MEDCRUISE PORTS

Aimilia PapachristouPolicy Advisor-MedCruise

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PRESENTING MEDCRUISE

27,02 millions 27,02 millions passenger movements

14.42814.428cruise calls

70 70 port members (>100 ports), 32 associatesport members (>100 ports), 32 associates20 countries20 countries

MedCruise: Bringing together ports in the Med & adjoining seasMedCruise member traffic 2013

Source: Cruise Activities in MedCruise ports (2014)

A Growing Membership empowers the AssociationCruise Passenger Movements Evolution in MedCruise ports

Source: Cruise Activities in MedCruise ports (2014)

MedCruise Objectives

• Promote cruise destinations and ports in the Med and adjoining seas.

• Collaborate on:– Training– Environment– Policies & Operational issues

• Develop quality passenger shipping experiences: – Preserve diversity and authenticity. – Manage congestion– Shared return: local communities, ships, passengers.

IMPORTANCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

What do Med ports do?

• We know that Environmental management is challenging but essential (“licence to operate and to grow”)

• We work together and commit to actions– Professional cooperation (The MedCruise Professional

Development Course)– Assisting tools – Proactive voluntary self-regulation

• Added value for both the sector and individual ports• Trends provide inspiration for further improvement

Note: Environmental priorities change over time

Source: ESPO, various years

INVOLVEMENT IN SUSTAINABLE CRUISE RESEARCH

ASSISTING TOOLS:

Project OverviewMed Cruise ports care:Waste reception facilities

• MedCruise partnered with other actors to map the existing waste reception facilities in Mediterranean ports• Cruise lines will soon know where and how they can

discharge waste• Ports will learn which are the best practices

Why?

• Rules (MARPOL73/78 Annex V)

• Principles for waste management

• Waste Hierarchy

INTEGRATED SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IS A COMPLEX ISSUE

At Sea Ashore

• Storage• Segregation • Reuse• Treatment • Incinerators • Recycling• Energy

Recovery

• Reception• Storage• Segregation• Treatment • Recycling• Re-use • Compost • Biogas • Energy recovery • Transfer to Centralized

Station

Packaging Define a plan for the recovery or re-use of 30%Bio-waste Re-use the economic value of 90%Paper Define a plan for the recovery or re-use of 40%

Project Overview

MedCruise partnered with other actors to identify concrete actions within the framework of the European Directive on waste, the so-called 3Rs: Reduction, Re-use, Recycling and revised Marpol Annex V.

Med Cruise Ports care:Waste Management

WASTE RECEPTION FACILITIES AT MEDCRUISE PORTS

Extracts from data collected as part of MedCruise ports participation at the Sustainable Development project

GARBAGE RECEPTION FACILITIES (GRF) Location at the port

GARBAGE RECEPTION FACILITIES (GRF)

Working hours of GRF at the port

GARBAGE RECEPTION FACILITIES per type of carbage

Plastics Food Wastes

Domestic Wastes

Cooking Oils

Incinerator Ashes

Operational Wastes

Cargo Residues

Animal Carcass

Fishing Gear

Truck ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓Container ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓Tank ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓Forklift ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓Vessel ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓Cages ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓Barge ✓ ✓ ✓Skip ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓Dumpster ✓Plastic IBCs ✓Barrels ✓Packages ✓Drum ✓Bags ✓Pipes ✓

Procedures followed for garbage reception from the Waste Declaration Form till the garbage reception

Main requirements for garbage reception in terms of packaging & labelling

• Different garbages, different packaging• Segregation, Separation

– Paper, Glass, Plastic, Metal: Bulk, Boxes, Containers– Wood, Textile: Containers and Bags– Food: Bags– Hazardous waste:

• ADR (Accord européen relative au transport international des marchandises Dangereuses par Route) and

• IMDG (International Maritime Dangerous Goods), based on Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods”, issued by the UN

Main reasons for not accepting garbage reception

Reason No.Delays in delivering 1Lack of garbage disposal request 3Inappropriate package 6Improper or no segregation 3Out of scope (e.g. ashes, batteries etc) 3Large quantities 1Hazardous garbage 2All above reasons 1

SERVICES OFFERED PRIOR TO GARBAGE DISPOSAL Does the port provide storage inside its area? If yes, for which product types?

Product type %

A. Plastics 38%

B. Food wastes 33%

C. Domestic wastes 38%

D. Cooking oil 28%

E. Incinerator ashes 22%

F. Operational wastes 33%

G. Cargo residues 38%

H. Animal carcass(es) 5,5%

I. Fishing gear 11%

SERVICES OFFERED PRIOR TO GARBAGE DISPOSAL Does the port offer segregation services?

Garbage disposal methods used in the port

Proprietary status of the port reception facilities

N=17

Fee collection scheme applied at the port

Other:•Combined system (direct and indirect fees)•The service is provided by specialized companies, no fees applied by port

Charges per m3

Exemptions rules applied at the port

• Based on:– The ship’s tonnage – Regularity of calls– Frequency of calls– Days of berth at port– National laws (e.x. Spain: Royal Decrees

1381/2002 and 1084/2009)

Authorities responsible for procedures & controlling proper execution of waste reception & handling services

N=20Authority No.

Port Authority 8

Coast Guard 4

Harbour Master 2Provincial Directorate of Environment and Urbanism 1

Ministry of Environment 2

Environment and planning authorities 1

Local Municipality 2

Remember why all these

- Illegal to discharge waste into the sea

- Develop Corporate Image of friends of the environment

- Passenger feeling moral consumers

- In short: Recovery has an economic value

Thank you

Aimilia PapachristouPolicy Advisor

www.medcruise.com