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Waste to Energy (WtE) facilities in Europe

It has been reported that the five European countries with the highest recycling rates (Germany, Austria, Sweden, Netherlands and Belgium) are amongst the countries with the most Waste to Energy (WtE) facilities in Europe. These countries use their landfills to dispose of less than 1% of the waste they generate, with the majority being productively handled by WtE plants. The environmental benefit of these facilities is on a much larger scale than many know.

https://waste-management-world.com/a/in-depth-do-waste-to-energy-plants-discourage-recycling

#WtE

Providing a model to follow when setting up and operating a management system, find out more about how MSS work and where they can be applie

A management system is the way in which an organization manages the inter-related parts of its business in order to achieve its objectives. These objectives can relate to a number of different topics, including product or service quality, operational efficiency, environmental performance, health and safety in the workplace and many more.

The level of complexity of the system will depend on each organization’s specific context. For some organizations, especially smaller ones, it may simply mean having strong leadership from the business owner, providing a clear definition of what is expected from each individual employee and how they contribute to the organization’s overall objectives, without the need for extensive documentation. More complex businesses operating, for example, in highly regulated sectors, may need extensive documentation and controls in order to fulfil their legal obligations and meet their organizational objectives.

#iso14000 #wequator

Environmental Management

Environmental management is increasingly practiced as an essential component of the business plan of any operation that claims to be sustainable, efficient and compliant with legislation that is particularly evident in port activities (Puig et al., 2015). Implementing environmental programs and green marketing strategies would lead to better environmental performance (Gimenez et al., 2012, Rao, 2002, Zhu and Sarkis, 2004) and firm competiveness (Yang et al., 2013). Promoting and practicing ISO 14001 series would enhance environmental performance (Saengsupavanich et al., 2009, Yang et al., 2013).

Activities to reduce environmental damages are consistently needed as well (Wagner and Schaltegger, 2004, Yang et al., 2013, Zhu et al., 2007). Monitoring programs are implemented to reduce the opportunity of having business partners acting unethically or even illegally in terms of environmental and/or social issues (Carter and Rogers, 2008, Simpson and Power, 2005). It is found that audits, evaluation, assessment practices of business partners have positive impact on environmental performance (Saengsupavanich et al., 2009, Yang et al., 2013).

Legislations

there have been related legislations in the EU (i.e. Classification Societies – Regulation (EC) No 391/2009, Ship-Source Pollution – Directive 2000/59/EC, Marine Equipment – Directive 96/98/EC and Directive 2014/90/EU), Australia (i.e. Environmental Protection Act 1986 (WA), New Zealand (i.e. Resource Management (Marine Pollution) Regulations), USA (i.e. Diesel Emission Reduction Act (DERA), Singapore (i.e. Environmental Protection and Management Act (Cap.94A), etc.). These legislations are aiming at incorporating environmental issues into core strategies of port development and are based on stricter standards. Therefore, sustainability is increasingly seen as one of the key drivers in port development in the next decades.

Ports must plan and manage their operations and future expansion (growth) in a sustainable way in order to cope with the limited or decreased environmental space and intensified interactions with their hinterlands. The recognition and accommodation of port development concept in harmony with the surrounding cities clearly render green growth and important economic driver.

Sustainable Ports

Sustainability agendas are challenging port authorities around the world to find ways of operating and managing their ports efficiently and effectively in terms of economic, social, as well as environmental development. In this respect, governments in ASEAN countries have been implementing various green activities seeking to reduce the environmental impact of shipping and related activities. In this connection, most studies in the existing literature mainly focus on the environmental aspects of sustainable development and have not clearly explained what sustainable port development exactly entails.

Experts say Beijing is pouring investment into the Melaka Gateway project because it wants to secure its trade routes as part of its ‘One

Top Malaysian officials say the construction of a new deep-sea port as part of the $43 billion Malaysian ringgit (HK$75.6 billion) Melaka Gateway project, jointly developed by local and Chinese firms, serves notice that the country plans to make itself a key part of Beijing’s ambitious “One Belt One Road” initiative.

Detractors, however, point to the near impossible task of upstaging the Port of Singapore – established Malaysian ports have tried for decades to no avail – as evidence that the Chinese are pouring money into the project for strategic rather than commercial reasons.

Drewry has recently released its report on the top terminal operators of 2013 by market share measured on a TEU basis

The World’s Top 5 Terminal Operators

Singapore PSA found #Gwadar unviable in the long run and left. China stepped in not because it found Gwadar viable, but because it looked at Pakistan as a client state and it was sure it would make Pakistan dance to its tunes. China does not even have much of a use for operating this kind of port because it is already operating a ten times larger terminal in Fujairah, UAE, just across the Gulf of Oman. China will use it only to exercise its hegemony over its willing client state.

ISLAMABAD, Dec 22: The government has decided to give the management control of the Gwadar port to Port of Singapore...

Talks between govt, Port of Singapore Authority (PSA) on to end their $750m agreement.

The deal between the #Gwadar Port Authority (GPA), on behalf of the government of Pakistan, and the Singapore giant ran into trouble mainly because of two reasons.

Firstly, the security situation in #Balochistan hindered the PSA from investing the money it had promised in the agreement for the development of the port and off-shore infrastructure.

Secondly, the Supreme Court had issued a stay order against the allotment of Gwadar land to a foreign company, back in December 2010, on petitions filed by some individuals, including the Balochistan governor.

ISLAMABAD (AFP) - China took control of Pakistan's Gwadar port on Monday as part of its drive to secure energy and maritime routes that also

#gwadar China paid about 75 percent of the initial US$250 million (S$309 million) used to build the port but in 2007 PSA International won a 40-year operating lease.

Then-ruler Pervez Musharraf was reportedly unwilling to upset Washington by giving control of the port to the Chinese.

On February 6 Indian Defence Minister AK Antony said New Delhi was concerned by Pakistan's decision to transfer management of the deep-sea port to China, which has interests in a string of other ports encircling India.

GWADAR (Pakistan) (BLOOMBERG) - For the thousands of attendees, it was meant to be a conference to showcase China's flagship Belt and Road p

#Gwadar Following the murder, China called on Islamabad to take more measures to ensure security.

"It's our commitment to the Chinese companies or other investors going there to provide security," Pakistan's Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said in an interview. The security situation has significantly improved in Balochistan, he said.

Security challenges come from longstanding grievances of the local #Baloch people. Many claim they have been discriminated against by Islamabad, which they say plunders their natural resources and gives little back to Pakistan's least populated and developed province.

More than 2,600 people have been killed or wounded in suicide attacks in #Balochistan since 2003, according to the South Asia Terrorism Portal.

“Gwadar Port finally making history by beginning its cargo handling from March 15, 2008,” says a newspaper report....

#Pakistan’s dream of having a deep water port at #Gwadar is nearly as old as its existence. It started with the recommendation of Worth Condrick who was deputed by the US for survey of the #Balochistan coast in 1954.

Realising importance of Gwadar, Pakistan paid £3 million (some say half that sum) in September 1958 to buy back the enclave from the Sultanate of Oman ending over 200 years of Omani control. Since then the history of the decision making process for its development has been that of studying, planning, shelving, restudying, re-planning and waiting and hoping for some outside aid agency to finance the project.

This process has taken half a century before the dream has finally become a reality, though, not fully yet to achieve the avowed objectives. Leaving aside the distant past, even the last two decades are full of events in the life story of Gwadar that make interesting history.

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