Port of Kiel Magazine No. 6 | 2018

17 I 0,5 200 1,0 1,5 2,0 2,5 3,0 3,5 Innerhalb ECA / Inside ECA Außerhalb ECA / Outside ECA 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400 1600 1800 2000 2200 RPM 350 300 250 200 150 100 50 * Gramm CO 2 pro transportierter Tonne und nautischer Meile / Grams of CO 2 per transported ton and nautical mile 450 400 600 550 500 650 CO 2 -EMMISSION 0 50 100 150 200 250 E * I 0,5 200 1,0 1,5 2,0 2,5 3,0 3,5 Innerhalb ECA / Inside ECA Außerhalb ECA / Outside ECA 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400 1600 1800 2000 2200 RPM 350 300 250 200 150 100 50 * mm CO 2 pro transportierter Tonne und n utischer Meile / Grams of CO 2 per transported ton and nautical mile 450 400 600 550 500 650 CO 2 -EMMISSION 0 50 100 150 200 250 E * PORT STORIES Green Shipping – one might envisi- on large conservatories aboard luxury cruise liners that make you feel like walking through the rainforest, with the exception that you are on the high seas. No, this is not what is meant here. But you certainly knew that before. Green Shipping is the specialist term used for the reduction of environmen- tal pollution and the improvement of environment protection in the shipping industry. It strives to reduce exhaust emissions by propulsion technologies and fuels, to limit the pollution through oil and other harmful liquids and to minimize the waste disposal as well as the waste-water discharge into the oceans. Furthermore, measures exist to improve the environment protection with respect to the infrastructure, e.g. in the ports. Adopting and enforcing effective environment protection mea- sures in sea trade on a national level is difficult because shipping is an interna- tional mode of transport. What cannot be solved nationally, simply needs to be regulated by an international authori- ty. But how can this be simple? In the shipping industry it is the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) which is responsible for the establishment and enforcement of internationally consis- tent standards. Taking into account a world fleet with a very slow renewal rate as the operating lifetime of the individual vessels is 25-30 years – how can this be simple? Shipping companies can freely choose the flag of their ship which actually means choosing their prefered wage and environment stan- dards. Simple? And yet. Things are chan- ging. Especially in the Baltic Sea. Why precisely in the Baltic Sea? Appro- ximately one third of all ships world-wide have their port of origin or destination in the EU. The North Sea and the Baltic Sea belong to the most frequented and busiest seas in the world. More than 30,000 ships use the Kiel Canal per year and about 2,000 ships can be found at the Baltic Sea every day. The Baltic Sea is a small and shallow sea almost completely surrounded by land. It is the biggest brackish water sea on earth and consists of a mix of river and sea water, fresh and salt water. The Baltic Sea is also special because there is only very little water exchange with other seas. One drop of water remains in the Baltic Sea for 25-35 years.