WINDS of CHANGE! - New Orleans Terminal LLC Autumn Is Upon Us and Brings with It Good Winds of Change at Green Marine
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NOVEMBER 2016 L’INFOLETTREGREEN DE MARINE L’ALLIANCE NEWSLETTER VERTE IN THIS ISSUE New Participants: - Port Corpus Christi WINDS OF CHANGE! - New Orleans Terminal LLC Autumn is upon us and brings with it good winds of change at Green Marine. The projects are numerous, diverse - Port of Olympia and stimulating. The Secretariat, for example, will soon welcome a new employee, and we have new performance New Partner: indicators on the table, all while putting the final touches on the 14th edition of Green Marine Magazine and - Certified Laboratories New Association: working full steam ahead on the preparations for our 10th annual conference. - Michigan Aggregates Association Green Marine News: Happy reading! - New employee - New magazine - Successful New Orleans event GreenTech 2017: Industry success stories: - GCT Canada - Fednav - BC Ferries NEW MEMBERS - Port of Seattle - Port of Tacoma - Port of Montreal - Port of Québec GREEN MARINE PROUDLY WELCOMES THREE NEW U.S. - Ocean Spotlight on partners - Thordon Bearings PARTICIPANTS - Schneider Electric - Climate Smart Businesses Port Corpus Christi becomes the first Texan port to join Green Marine. As the primary economic engine of the - Ionada Coastal Bend, Port Corpus Christi is the fifth largest port in the United States in terms of overall tonnage. Port Corpus - ABS - RSC Bio Solutions Christi is strategically located on the western Gulf of Mexico, with a straight, 45-foot (13.7-metre) deep channel. Events It provides quick access to the Gulf and the entire U.S. Inland Waterways - 4th Sustainable Ocean Summit System. The Port delivers outstanding access to overland transportation - Highway H20 - GST North America with onsite direct connections to three Class-1 railroads and uncongested #BragAboutIt interstate and state highways. Port Corpus Christi is protected by a state-of-the-art security department and an List of all Green Marine members award-winning Environmental Management System. CONTACT US In Quebec City: 25, du Marché-Champlain, suite 402 Quebec City, QC, G1K 4H2 418-649-6004 In Seattle: 1201, Alaskan Way, suite 200 Seattle, WA, 98101 206-409-3943 Email: [email protected] green-marine.org THE GREEN WAVE // GREEN MARINE NEWSLETTER NEW MEMBERS New Orleans Terminal, LLC is the single operator for the N.O.T. Container Facility, the N.O.T. Container Freight Station, and the New Orleans Intermodal On-Dock-Rail Ramp. N.O.T. enables carriers and their customers to quickly and cost-effectively handle cargoes destined to discharge or load and thereby reduce or eliminate intermodal consolidation and shipping costs. N.O.T. is a joint venture between Ceres and Container Marine Terminals LLC. Both Ceres and the Port of New Orleans are active Green Marine participants. The Port of Olympia is located in South Puget Sound in Washington State. It is a multi-use, publically owned and operated port focused on bulk and breakbulk cargoes including logs, organic grains, proppants, livestock, heavy lift equipment and wind-power components. With various rail and road accesses, the Port of Olympia is an ideal intermodal hub for various niche cargoes across different industries. It offers on-dock rail capabilities, a 140-metric-ton lifting capacity Gottwald mobile harbor crane, close proximity to I-5, and both BNSF and UP rail service. The port also has its 76,000-square-foot (7,060 square-metre) open-beam warehouse in close proximity to its dock with 39 feet (11.9 metres) of dredged depth at mean low low water. It differentiates itself from its competition through its flexible longshore labor and the unique relationship with management. The ILWU Local 47 prides itself in being first-in-class for reliability in handling the most challenging cargo. The port owns various types of equipment and operates within a secure U.S. Customs bonded facility that includes a Foreign-Trade Zone (216). GREEN MARINE ALSO WELCOMES A NEW PARTNER… Certified Laboratories is an international company established in 1949 with global manufacturing facilities. It is a major supplier of fuel quality assurance and lubrication products for businesses large and small. Certified Laboratories conducts extensive laboratory research and development of environmentally acceptable lubricants and lubrication practices while continuing to be one of the largest manufacturers and suppliers of lubrication products in the world. It helps companies to reduce their environmental footprint by engineering advanced technology products and services that directly reduce waste-oil streams and exposure to hazardous constituents. This includes everything from safely extending drain intervals to being one of the leading developers of new and effective EAL lubricants. … AND A NEW ASSOCIATION MEMBER The Michigan Aggregates Association promotes best practices for safe and efficient aggregate production, responsible environmental stewardship and reasonable material specifications for its members. Through community involvement, the association educates the public and creates a sustainable industry for future generations by providing materials used by Michigan citizens in their daily lives. GREEN MARINE – NOVEMBER 2016 I 2 THE GREEN WAVE // GREEN MARINE NEWSLETTER GM NEWS NEW PROGRAM MANAGER ON THE EAST COAST! We are pleased to announce that Thomas Grégoire program and coordinating Green Marine’s Great Lakes has joined Green Marine as a new program manager advisory committee and other working groups. Thomas and will be based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Thomas has been hired to replace Françoise Quintus, who has holds a bachelor’s degree in Science – Biology from been one of Green Marine’s program managers since Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Prior to 2010 but will leave at the end of December to pursue joining Green Marine, he worked for the Chamber of new challenges. Green Marine gratefully thanks Shipping of British Columbia for two years as a security Françoise for her exceptional contribution in developing and policy analyst. His primary role will be to support the environmental program’s criteria and her extensive Green Marine’s East Coast and Great Lakes participants support to Green Marine participants over the past six in implementing the Green Marine environmental years. GREEN MARINE MAGAZINE, NO. 14 The fall issue of Green Marine Magazine is at the presses! All members will shortly receive their copy by mail, but Issue No. 14 is already available on line. The magazine looks at underwater noise, climate VIEW ONLINE (FLIPBOOK) > change, leadership and environmental excellence, port emission inventories and a gamut of other enriching and innovative topics derived from North America’s maritime industry! A SUCCESSFUL GREEN MARINE SEMINAR IN NEW ORLEANS More than 50 people took part in Green Marine’s and Meredith Martino (American Association of Port informational seminar in New Orleans, Louisiana, on Authorities) – shared their views on the program’s Thursday, October 27th. They first had the opportunity criteria and applicability. to listen to an inspiring presentation from Dr. Lee Green Marine is truly grateful that so many key Gulf Kindberg, director of Environment & Sustainability Coast maritime stakeholders took some time out of at Maersk Line on “Delivering Sustainability.” Green their busy schedules to discuss sustainability with us Marine representatives subsequently outlined the over lunch. Our sincere thank you to everyone who took environmental certification program. The group also part, as well as our speakers, and to the Port of New heard insiders’ perspectives. The representatives of Orleans for helping us to organize such a successful several Green Marine participants – Amelia Pellegrin event! (Port of New Orleans), René Hayes (Ceres Terminals), GREEN MARINE – NOVEMBER 2016 I 3 THE GREEN WAVE // GREEN MARINE NEWSLETTER GREENTECH 2017 HEADING SOUTH! IIt’s time to register for Green Marine 10th annual We’re counting on your presence at the Hyatt Regency conference, to be held from Tuesday, May 30 to Pier Sixty-Six in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to ensure the Thursday, June 1, 2017! success of GreenTech 2017. REGISTER NOW > BOOK A ROOM> CALL FOR SPEAKERS Green Marine welcomes proposals from members of the marine transportation community to present at GreenTech 2017. The proposals and presentations should focus on actual marine transportation experiences, case studies and/or leading-edge research that show delegates how best practices, new technologies and insightful partnerships make a difference in terms of improving environmental sustainability. Everyone is invited to submit a proposal before December 1st, 2016, on the different environmental issues covered by the Green Marine environmental program’s performance indicators and/or on subjects of current interest to the program’s U.S. and Canadian participants: ship owners, port authorities, terminal operations and shipyard managers. Topics of interest for GreenTech 2017: • Climate change adaptation and resiliency/ • Dual fuel and LNG use Climate risk and adaptation strategy • Sustainability: from the corporate to the • Air emission issues in ports (e.g. impacts, operational level GreenTech 2017 inventory, mitigation) • Cruise ship industry environmental challenges • Marine ecosystem protection (e.g. water quality, (emissions, waste water management, recycling) May 30 - June 1 whales and their habitat, endangered species, Fort Lauderdale coral reefs) SUBMIT A PROPOSAL > EXHIBITION Green Marine is organizing another commercial exhibition for GreenTech 2017! The annual