CLEAN BALTIC SEA SHIPPING

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BALTIC SEA CLEAN SHIPPING (CLEANSHIP), is part of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region, and has by the EU Commission become selected as a strategic flagship project in its mission to make the Baltic Sea a model region for clean shipping. It promotes measures to reduce emissions from ships to the atmosphere and elaborates ways to promote infrastructure for bunkering of LNG and increased use of shoreside electricity. It also elaborates future solutions to stop all sewage releases from ships into the Baltic Sea. The project shall result in a web-based Pan-Baltic Best Practice Manual and a strategy for Clean Shipping. Scenarios for environmental impact from different technical measures and specific port elaborations by pilot projects form the basis for future commitments and decision making about needed investments. The CLEANSHIP project partners, all in all 19 full partners, 20 associated partners and 14 supporting organisations, represent together all the different stakeholders in international shipping in the BSR region. Major Baltic ports, large shipowners, ship fuel makers, coastal communities with own ports, authorities with shipping and ship environmental duties, and the respective stakeholders supporting regional and branch organisations are in different forms represented in this project The CLEANSHIP project therefore consists of and contains voluntary and joint efforts from the entire shipping branch in the Baltic Sea Region itself, jointly creating necessary and functional best practice solutions which will in the end make all Baltic Sea shipping cleaner and less polluting the vulnerable Baltic Sea. The project contains a number of very important pilot projects, all of which will decrease the different types of pollution in air and water from ships. Respective pilot projects are carried out as pioneer projects by the different project partners during the present project period. To jointly share and step by step evaluate the achievements from these pilot projects forms a very essential part of the project. Another very essential part is to continuously spread information about all new knowledge and achievements to all parts of the shipping branch, decision makers, and technicians and also to politicians on all levels dealing with shipping matters and the Baltic Sea environmental concerns.

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