GREENTECH 2017! - ABC Recycling - Glencore There’S Less Than a Month Left to Green Marine’S Annual Conference, Greentech 2017
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MAY 2017 L’INFOLETTREGREEN DE MARINE L’ALLIANCE NEWSLETTER VERTE IN THIS ISSUE New participants: 3,2,1… GREENTECH 2017! - ABC Recycling - Glencore There’s less than a month left to Green Marine’s annual conference, GreenTech 2017. This year’s conference will - Port of Belledune be held at the Hyatt Regency Pier Sixty-Six in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, from May 30th to June 1st. Most of the New supporters: exhibition showroom booths have been sold, the sponsored events await delegates, and registration continues. - Clean Foundation Along with busily preparing for GreenTech 2017, the Green Marine team is compiling the environmental - Port Edward performance results of the program’s participants and putting the final touches to Green Marine Magazine. Both - Prince Rupert the results and the magazine will be unveiled at the conference. - Protected Seas Industry success stories: - Seaspan NEW MEMBERS - Port NOLA - Desgagnés - Port of Hueneme - CSL Group GREEN MARINE PROUDLY WELCOMES THREE NEW - Neptune Terminals Spotlight on partners & supporters PARTICIPANTS - Ocean Networks Canada - Hemmera The Belledune Port Authority was incorporated as a federal not-for-profit commercial port authority on Events March 29, 2000, pursuant to the Canada Marine Act. The Port of Belledune offers modern infrastructure and GreenTech 2017 equipment, including a barge terminal, a roll-on/roll-off terminal and a modular component fabrication facility. The #BragAboutIt Port of Belledune is a year-round, ice-free, deep-water port that offers efficient List of all Green Marine members stevedoring services. The port has ample outdoor terminal storage space and several indoor storage facilities – a definite competitive advantage for bulk, breakbulk and general cargo handling. It deals with shipping companies and CONTACT US clients from around the world. In Quebec City: Every Canadian Port Authority is now a participant in the Green Marine program. A Memorandum 25, du Marché-Champlain, suite 402 Quebec City, QC, G1K 4H2 of Understanding (MOU) signed between the Association of Canadian Port Authorities (ACPA) and Green Marine in 418-649-6004 2014 definitely helped to achieve this all-encompassing membership. The MOU outlined the mutual goal to work together to expand efforts to reduce In Halifax: Purdy’s Wharf, 1949 Upper Water Street, suite 201 the marine industry’s environmental Halifax, NS, B3J 3N3 footprint. “With all 18 Canadian 902-680-6348 port authorities now participating In Seattle: in Green Marine, the port industry 1201, Alaskan Way, suite 200 is sending a clear message about its Seattle, WA, 98101 206-409-3943 commitment – and involvement – towards continuously improving its Email: [email protected] environmental performance,” said ACPA green-marine.org President Wendy Zatylny. THE GREEN WAVE // GREEN MARINE NEWSLETTER NEW MEMBERS Establish in 1912, ABC Recycling is Western Canada’s largest scrap metal recycling company. The Nanaimo terminal offers roll-off bin, trailer, flat deck, crane truck, off-site demolition, and barge services throughout Vancouver Island. ABC Recycling diverts up to 20,000 tonnes of ferrous and nonferrous scrap metal from municipal landfills every month. It prepares and packages the scrap metal for sale worldwide. Glencore’s Port of Quebec facilities consist of a loading and unloading operation for nickel concentrate and nickel matte. The terminal has stage storage capacity. It unloads eight ships of nickel concentrate from Raglan Mine yearly, and loads 20 ships of nickel matte annually for the Nikkelverk Refinery in Norway. It also transits more than 2,000 railcars to its Sudbury Smelter in Northern Ontario. GREEN MARINE ALSO WELCOMES FOUR NEW SUPPORTERS Clean Foundation is a non-profit, non-governmental environment organization created in 1988. It works for a clean climate and clean water. Clean Foundation focuses on critical ecological issues, including energy and climate change, clean water, marine health, waste reduction, and youth education. Its work includes practical on-the-ground programs, policy contributions, partnerships and strategic collaborations, as well as participatory, experiential education. For example, Clean Foundation’s Great Nova Scotia Pick-Me-Up is Nova Scotia’s largest volunteer-driven community clean-up program, promoting the removal of litter across the province. Clean Foundation’s Ship-to-Shore program aims to engage Nova Scotia’s commercial fishers to address concerns regarding waste disposal practices at sea, and the lack of waste management resources at fishing harbours. To date, Ship-to-Shore has visited more than 130 fishing harbours. Clean Foundation is sharing the program’s concept in other Atlantic Canadian provinces. Anthropocene Institute - Protected Seas works to encourage sustainable, long-term solutions to ocean issues through innovative technology projects. The Marine Protected Area (MPA) mapping project, a public-private partnership with the NOAA MPA Center, is establishing the most comprehensive source for identifying place-based protections on marine extraction and delivering that to boaters through free online tools and partnerships with electronic charting providers. To help monitor and enforce MPAs, Protected Seas has a Marine Monitor (M2) system that leverages low-cost, commercial marine radar technology to provide 24/7 coverage of near-shore MPAs using customized software. For more information on these and other projects, visit ProtectedSeas.net GREEN MARINE – MAY 2017 I 2 THE GREEN WAVE // GREEN MARINE NEWSLETTER NEW MEMBERS Port Edward is a small port community in British Columbia, south of Prince Rupert, and west of Terrace. The district consists of approximately 18,387 hectares (45,435 acres), bordered by the Skeena River, Inverness Passage, and mountains north of Highway 16. It is accessible by road and by water. Prince Rupert and its approximately 12,000 residents are located 885 kilometres (550 miles) north of Vancouver, British Columbia. Set against a spectacular backdrop of mountains and sea, the city is home to North America’s deepest natural harbour and the closest bulk and container facility to Asia. The magnificent ice-free harbour extends for 22.5 kilometres (14 miles) and remains ice-free year-round. It is one of the world’s deepest natural harbours. INDUSTRY SUCCESS STORIES SEASPAN CELEBRATES DOUBLE PORT NOLA OFFERS MONTHLY PUBLIC COMMISSIONING OF NEW LNG VESSELS TOURS Seaspan Ferries Corporation (SFC) officially welcomed two new state-of-the-art dual- The Port of New Orleans has launched a new initiative called “Tour Your Port” to give the fuelled/hybrid (LNG, diesel and battery) vessels to its fleet on April 9th when a double community the opportunity to see port operations from the vantage point of the Mississippi commissioning ceremony was held at SFC’s Tilbury Terminal. The Seaspan Swift and the River. The free monthly tours each accommodate about 20 passengers aboard the port’s Seaspan Reliant – the first eco-ferries of their kind in North America – were formally fireboat, the General Roy S. Kelley. The first tour, held March 31st, was fully booked within a christened by British Columbia Premier Christy Clark, and Anisa White, the wife of Doug week. The April and May tours were also quickly filled. Port NOLA has held tours for school White III, Councillor and Chief Negotiator for the Snuneymuxw First Nation. The Seaspan and business groups for the past few years, but this is the first time it has created access on a Swift and the Seaspan Reliant are the first of a next generation of vessels fuelled by B.C.’s first-come, first-served basis for any community member to learn about the port. Feedback clean-burning LNG. The 148.9-metre ferries can accommodate up to 59 trailers that are up from the first tour was very positive, and the port looks forward to meeting new people to 16 metres in length. The eco-ferries are the first new vessels in the SFC’s fleet since 2002. each month. The outreach is an important step in helping the community learn about the The Seaspan Swift is also shortlisted for the Nor-Shipping Awards in the Energy Efficiency economic activity along the Lower Mississippi River and the port’s role in that commerce. category. The winners will be announced on May 30th, in London, England. GREEN MARINE – MAY 2017 I 3 THE GREEN WAVE // GREEN MARINE NEWSLETTER INDUSTRY SUCCESS STORIES DESGAGNÉS TAKES DELIVERY OF THE PORT OF HUENEME RECEIVES WORLD’S FIRST DUAL-FUEL/LNG ENVIRONMENTAL AWARD California’s Port of Hueneme has been recognized for its environmental projects with a state ASPHALT TANKER award. The Earth Day Award for Excellence in Environmental Stewardship recognizes a series On March 30th, Desgagnés took delivery of the Damia Desgagnés – the world’s first duel- of strategic environmental initiatives first adopted by the port in 2012. They include stringent fuel/LNG asphalt tanker. This next-generation asphalt-bitumen-chemical tanker is the first air and water quality measures, the protection of marine resources, healthy soil and sediment of a series of four tankers ordered to be custom-built at the Besiktas shipyard in Yalova, near maintenance, and climate change adaptation. The Port of Hueneme celebrates 25 years as a Istanbul, Turkey, according to an original concept developed by Desgagnés. U.S. Port of Entry this year. Since its 1992 designation, the port has more than tripled its cargo The Damia Desgagnés is the first dual-fuel-powered Canadian-flagged tanker and the first- volume from 478,384 tons originally to almost 1.5 million tons today. ever asphalt carrier of its kind. The vessel’s most notable characteristic is that, with simple commands, it can be powered by any of three types of fuel, namely heavy fuel oil, marine diesel oil or liquefied natural gas. Switching to LNG whenever possible offers undeniable advantages in terms of sustainable development by drastically reducing greenhouse gas output and other emissions. The vessel was highlighted for its innovation on April 26th when participating in a terminal pipe-to-ship LNG bunkering operation in Spain – a first in Europe.