North-Western Basin Branch News

Representative of the FSUE “Rosmorport” Ust-Luga branch participated in the German-Russian conference on ecology of the seaport of Hamburg

The head of Ecological department of the FSUE “Rosmorport”Ust-Luga branch O.V.Stepanov participated in the German-Russian conference on ecology of the seaport Hamburg. The meeting of ecologists took place within the framework of the Russian-German working group «Management of natural resources and preservation of the sea environment in region of the Baltic sea» in course of which an arrangement with the German colleagues about sharing experience on environmental influence on the port infrastructure and facilities to the Russian specialists was reached.

The conference went on from April, 28 till April, 30th, 2010 on the basis of the Hamburg Department of City Development and Ecology and Administration of the port of Hamburg. The organizers of the conference were the Federal Ministry of Environment, Wildlife and Safety of Nuclear Reactors of Germany and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation.

During the addresses the lecturers marked a number of vital topics on withdrawal, cleaning and placing of bottom sediment, recycling ship waste in ports, reduction of environmental contaminations by trading and cruise ships, cleaning polluted areas.

In the final day of the conference the participants made an excursion on the water area of the port and visited МЕТНА – the world’s first large complex on mechanical division into fractions and cleaning bottom sediment.

The perspective contacts made in Hamburg and the received experience of innovative German technologies in the field of nature protection will be used by the enterprise in its further activity on development and modernization of the seaport of Ust-Luga.