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REGIONAL MARINE POLLUTION EMERGENCY RESPONSE CENTRE FOR THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA (REMPEC) EURO-MED PARTNERSHIP PROJECT MED.B7.4100.97.0415.8 PORT RECEPTION FACILITIES FOR COLLECTING SHIP-GENERATED GARBAGE, BILGE WATERS AND OILY WASTES ACTIVITY A COLLECTION AND TREATMENT OF SOLID AND LIQUID WASTES FINAL REPORT October 2003 ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ENGINEERING S.A. REGIONAL MARINE POLLUTION EMERGENCY RESPONSE CENTRE FOR THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA (REMPEC) EURO-MED PARTNERSHIP PROJECT MED.B7.4100.97.0415.8 PORT RECEPTION FACILITIES FOR COLLECTING SHIP-GENERATED GARBAGE, BILGE WATERS AND OILY WASTES ACTIVITY A COLLECTION AND TREATMENT OF SOLID AND LIQUID WASTES FINAL REPORT October 2003 ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ENGINEERING S.A. The present document and related study have been produced with the financial assistance of the European Community. The views expressed herein are those of REMPEC and can therefore in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Community (EC). The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of EC, IMO, UNEP, MAP and REMPEC concerning the legal status of any State, Territory, city or area, or its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of their frontiers or boundaries. PROJECT MED.B7.4100.97.0415.8 PORT RECEPTION FACILITIES FOR COLLECTING SHIP-GENERATED GARBAGE, BILGE WATERS AND OILY WASTES ACTIVITY A COLLECTION AND TREATMENT OF SOLID AND LIQUID WASTES Within the framework of Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, the European Community (EC) and the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) on behalf of the Regional Marine Pollution Emergency Response Centre for the Mediterranean Sea (REMPEC), have signed in December 2001 a Grant Agreement for the implementation of the operation entitled: Port reception facilities for collecting ship-generated garbage, bilge water and oily wastes (Project MED.B7.4100.97.0415.8). The implementation of the three-year Project started on 1st January 2002. The Project addresses ten Mediterranean beneficiary countries, Contracting Parties to the 1976 Barcelona Convention for the Protection of the Mediterranean Sea Against Pollution (Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Malta, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia and Turkey) and aims at facilitating the implementation of Annex I and Annex V of the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL 73/78). Activity A (Collection and treatment of solid and liquid wastes) as well as Activity C (Collection and treatment of oily ballast waters from tankers) of the Project were executed by the Environmental Protection Engineering S.A., Greece, contracted by and under the responsibility of REMPEC. The present report contains the findings of Activity A, while the findings of Activity C are the subject of a separate report. TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE Executive Summary 1 1. General 8 1.1 Subject and scope for Activity A of the project 9 1.2 Definitions 10 2. Regulations and Rules 13 2.1 Oily Mixtures 14 2.1.1 Criteria for discharging oily mixtures from the machinery spaces of 14 ships at sea 2.1.2 Annex I – MARPOL 73/78 Regulations dealing with the provision of 17 Reception Facilities in ports and terminals 2.1.3 Oily mixtures and residues produced in the machinery spaces of 19 ships and management practices implemented onboard 2.1.4 Calculation basis for oily wastes streams volumes 24 2.2 Garbage 27 2.2.1 Criteria for discharging garbage from ships into the Mediterranean 27 Sea 2.2.2 Annex V – MARPOL 73/78 Regulations dealing with the provision of 28 Reception Facilities in ports 2.2.3 Ship – generated garbage and current management practices 29 implemented onboard 2.2.4 Calculation basis for garbage streams volumes 32 2.2.5 Projection of wastes production and collection 36 3. Methodology 37 3.1 Maritime traffic data and analysis 38 3.2 Methodology for analysing and assessing the adequacy of existing 39 reception facilities 4. Analysis of Results 49 4.1 Algeria 50 4.2 Cyprus 87 4.3 Egypt 109 4.4 Israel 132 4.5 Lebanon 154 4.6 Malta 167 4.7 Morocco 187 4.8 Syria 203 4.9 Tunisia 214 4.10 Turkey 238 Summary table of the Analysis of the Results 269 5. Conclusion and Recommendations 274 - Annex Questionnaires related to Activity A 290 ρ Questionnaire for REMPEC National Focal Points & Maritime 291 Administration contact points (Quest. n.1) ρ Questionnaire for oil terminals (Quest. n.2) 304 ρ Questionnaire for ports involved in the project (Quest. n.3) 321 ρ Voluntary questionnaire for masters of ships calling at the ports of the 342 project (Quest. n.4) PORT RECEPTION FACILITIES FOR COLLECTING SHIP-GENERATED GARBAGE, BILGE WATERS AND OILY WASTES Activity A – Collection and treatment of solid and oily wastes from ships - EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Activity A of the project “Port Reception Facilities for Collecting Ship- Generated garbage, bilge water and oily wastes” – MED.B.7.4100.97.0415.8, is concerned with the identification of required capacities for collection and treatment of relevant types of solid and liquid wastes, taking into consideration the type and capacity of existing installations and specific nature of traffic in each country and port concerned, as well as specific requirements resulting from such differences. Annex I of MARPOL 73/78 contains certain regulations and interpretations related to procedures for the retention onboard, treatment, discharge at sea and disposal of oily mixtures generated in the machinery spaces of all ships and the cargo areas of oil tankers. Annex V, similarly, contains regulations dealing with the storage, disposal and management in general of garbage produced onboard ships. All the beneficiary countries of the project are signatory parties of the International Convention MARPOL 73/78 and its optional Annex V dealing with the prevention of marine pollution from ship-generated garbage, apart from Israel and Malta which are currently in preparatory work to ratify this Annex. Status of Annexes I and V of MARPOL 73/78 in the area of the project ( July 2003) Country Annex I Annex V Algeria 4 4 Cyprus 4 4 Egypt 4 4 Israel 4 - Lebanon 4 4 Malta 4 - Morocco 4 4 Syria 4 4 Tunisia 4 4 Turkey 4 4 1 PORT RECEPTION FACILITIES FOR COLLECTING SHIP-GENERATED GARBAGE, BILGE WATERS AND OILY WASTES Activity A – Collection and treatment of solid and oily wastes from ships Four questionnaires were produced and provided to the respective Port Authorities and Terminal Operators before the missions to each port and terminal, to enable the collection of essential information from those that are responsible for the provision, control and the operation of port reception facilities. These questionnaires were as follows: 1. Review of the national legislative framework related to the provision of port reception facilities for ship-generated waste (QES.1) It was addressed to both REMPEC Governmental - Operational Focal Points and the Maritime - Ports Administration Contact Points to provide information as per their area of responsibility. 2. Questionnaire for dedicated Oil Terminals (QES.2) This questionnaire was addressed to the Administration / Operators of oil terminals operating within the jurisdictional area of the ports involved in the project. 3. Questionnaire for Ports (QES.3) This was addressed to the Authority of each one of the ports, from which information was requested to a number of issues related to the maritime traffic, the type and the general infrastructure of the port and the existing reception facilities for dirty ballast and ship-generated waste in general. 4. Voluntary Questionnaire for Masters of ships calling at the port (QES.4) This was addressed to the Masters of ships that used to call at the ports during the project, seeking their voluntary participation to provide a few but significant data on the waste types and amounts their ships normally produce, handle and wish to deliver at port. The methodology used for calculating the volumes of dirty ballast and other relevant oily wastestreams from tankers involved the following tasks: 1. Calculation of the volumes of wastestreams by means of a series of formulas, that were developed taking into account: 1a The Guidelines developed by the International Maritime Organization to determine the adequacy of reception facilities for oily wastes from ships, based on the permissible discharge criteria at sea, oil retention onboard requirements and practices, as well as assumptions on waste production onboard ships. 1b Data on terminals specific traffic, collected from the responsible port authorities and/or other maritime-related sources, the berthing infrastructure in relation with the permissible and average sizes of ships, 2 PORT RECEPTION FACILITIES FOR COLLECTING SHIP-GENERATED GARBAGE, BILGE WATERS AND OILY WASTES Activity A – Collection and treatment of solid and oily wastes from ships the volume of oil as cargo handled on average, any operational requirements imposed to tankers, etc. 2. Collection of data maintained and provided by the operators of the existing reception facilities with the aim to compare the results taken from the first step and also to adapt better the formulas to the local conditions. The methodology is presented schematically below: PORT RECEPTION FACILITIES FOR COLLECTING SHIP GENERATED GARBAGE, BILGE WATER AND OILY WASTES Methodology for estimating oily waste streams to ports and oil terminals of the study Basic input to the Calculations of waste streams study using E.P.E. developed computational methodology Adaptation of basic assumptions to the methodology Collection of data on the waste Separate input to streams received and managed by the study the existing reception facilities Development of a structured Dissemination and voluntary Separate input to Questionnaire for the Masters of use of the Questionnaire the study incoming ships The methodology used for the analysis of maritime traffic consisted of the collection of data through the completed questionnaires 2 and 3 (developed for oil terminals and ports respectively), from other sources as well as from the MEDTRANS data base developed and maintained under the MEDSTAT program.