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ENVIRONMENT: INTRODUCTION

Cleaning up the marine environment

This issue of Caribbean Maritime magazine is highlighting a selection of disparate environmental issues and to coincide with January’s coming into force of the International Maritime Organization’s stringent new sulfur cap on the burning of heavy fuel oil.

Of course, concern for the environment and for our rivers, seas and oceans is much more than just reducing the sulfur content in HFO. Combatting marine pollution takes many forms: reducing solid and liquid waste entering river systems and subsequently the Caribbean Sea, protecting vulnerable coral reefs, improving air quality at ports and the safe disposal of used oil. Caribbean Maritime has chosen more or less at random four key environmental topics that impact on the region or from which it might benefit from in the near future. The four comprise: growing moves towards battery-powered container handling equipment (of which PortMiami, with its main terminal operator, is leading the way), combating river and ocean pollution via an ingenious and cost-effective new method of collection, the less-than-glamorous recycling of ships’ waste and the planned installation of sails to a cargo vessel dedicated to serving the Caribbean with the first such ship soon to be under construction.

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