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”ECOLOGICALLY FRIENDLY PORT” KICK-OFF

St.Petersburg

6-7. February 2013

UNIVERSITY OF TURKU, CENTRE FOR MARITIME STUDIES

Olli-Pekka Brunila

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Fields of Action

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Turku

Pori

Kotka

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WP in EFP Ust-Luga

• Analyzing environmental status in HaminaKotka port• Decreasing ship orginated air emissions in ports• Assesment of policy instruments and collection of best practises in

Finland• Environmental monitoring in the port of HaminaKotka• Project presentation in international conference in EU• Port in a city – International experiences and best practises

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Kotka Maritime Research Center

Maritime safety

Aalto University,

Port operation

logistics Kymenlaakso University

of Applied Sciences

Maritime logistics

University of Turku

Marine biology and the environmentUniversity of Helsinki

Metsähallitus

KMRC operates in close collaboration with the maritime industry, universities, institutes, authorities and organisations both nationally and internationally.

30-person unit in Kotka, Finland.

The Centre brings together strenghts of four universities with special focus on interdisplinary research.http://www.merikotka.fi/uk/projektit.php

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Ongoing projects in KMRC• OILRISK – Applications of Ecological Knowledge in Managing Oil

Spill Risk• CAFE – Competitive Advantage by Safety• RescOP –Development of rescue operations in the GoF• MIMIC – Minimizing risks of maritime oil transport by holistic safety

strategies• CHEMBALTIC – Risks of maritime transportation of chemicals in the

Baltic Sea• TOPCONS – Transboundary tools for spatila planning and

conservation of the GoF

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