Training of the staff and

crew with respect to

shipss waste
Ships Waste: Time For Action!
Brussels, 14th October 2010
Edo Donkers ProSea Foundation

Contents

1. Marine Awareness Courses (MACs): an outline

The ProSea approach
Content of ProSeas MACs
2. Development of an IMO Model Course
Marine Environmetal Awareness (MC-MEA)
Project Setting The Standards
MEA Training for officers and ratings
3. Links between MC-MEA and (the revision of) EU
Waste Directive 2000/59

The ProSea Approach

MACs started in 1998: questionnaire among

naval students in the NL: need for
environmental education!

1998-2010: `More than 5,000 participants of

> 20 nationalities have experienced a
ProSea MAC (2001 ProSea was founded in
Netherlands)

Our current/former/future clients: all Dutch

naval academies, shipowners (BP Shipping, Eletson
Tankers in Greece, Kuwait Oil Tanker Company, NYK,
Q Shipping, Clipper Marine Services), ship equipment
supplyers, salvage companies, Stolt Nielsen Tankers,
Port of Rotterdam

The ProSea Approach

Our mission: To increase the awareness
and understanding of the
importance of protection of
the marine environment and
Sustainable Development.
By providing information and education.
And lobby to spread and integrate marine
awareness.
...For those who have a very special responsibility

to the sea: marine professionals

Our approach: raising Marine Awareness in a

challenging (and non-accusing) manner, by
providing information and a sense of place where
the shipping industry operates

a sense of place

The well-known Triple P and

sustainability concept

People: society, politics, media

working conditions of employees
Planet: impact on (marine) environment
Profit: maintaining and keeping a profitable business

The ProSea Approach

Providing the Shipping Industry with A Sense Of Place
The Sea is more than a blue highway:
The environment of the shipping industry
comprises of:
The Natural Environment: > 70 % of surface of....

Planet Earth Sea

The Social Environment: society, public opinion,
politics
License To Operate
Power of Public Perception (another Triple P...)

The ProSea Approach

Providing the Shipping Industry with A Sense Of Place

21th Century: the communication age, World Village

Lets face it: the days of the free seas are over...
Were not alone at sea anymore

Content of ProSeas MACs

Triple P

Planet P Field work, learning by doing

Interactive workshops,
discussion, lectures

Profit P: business case

People P: reputation of
shipping workshop

Solutions!! Informal Q & A expert meetings

Content of ProSeas MACs

Day 1
Sustainable Shipping workshop
How does the sea work ? (theoretical and practical)
Profit P (lecture and business case)
Day 2
Challenges for shipping (topics)

Solutions (caf-meetings/experts)
Excursion Shrimp Trawler TX-10
Acceptance by Society (People P)

Day 3 - Responsibities
Sustainable Shipping vision of:
Ministry of Transport
Ship Owner view
Closing workshop
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Content of ProSeas MACs content ships waste

Pools of Garbage - Eastern en Western Pacific

Marine litter = everywhere!

Ingestion

The Albatros & fulmar

Big Plastic Consumers

Entanglement

Birds and sea mammals often

get entangled in ropes, nets etc.

Is marine litter a problem?

Ecological - Microplastics
The smallest particles are also ingested
Sand hopper: ingests polysterene grains (10m-750m)
(Orchestia gammarellus)

Content of ProSeas MACs

- Dedicated Courses
Dedicated courses for shipping
companies: 2 Day or 1 day programme
- In House courses
- Often combined with Seafarers Seminars

- Same programme / elements as naval

academies courses

If possible- an outdoor excursion

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Development of an IMO Model Course

Marine Environmental Awareness
Project Setting The Standards for MEA:

With funding from Dutch Ministry of Transport

and Lighthouse Foundation

Developing MC and supporting educational material

Ratings package (CBT) in co-operation with Seagull

Train The Trainers Programme for use of MC in own

local setting

Pilot/Test Course for officers in Oct/2010 in Phillippines:

-Draft- Model Course was very succesfull!!

Project in Mediterranean (Greece) will start in 2011

Development of an IMO Model Course

Marine Environmental Awareness
Starting Point: STCW competences for officers MC
and ISM Code:

Basic working knowledge of the relevant IMO

conventions of (...) and protection of the marine
environment

Application of leadership and teamworking skills:

Knowledge and ability to apply effective resource
management assertiveness and leadership, including
motivation

ISM Code In matters of safety and pollution

prevention it is the commitment, competence, attitudes
and motivation of individuals at all levels that determines
the end result

New STCW texts

Competence

Take precautions to
prevent pollution of the
marine environment

Knowledge,
understanding
and proficiency

Methods for
demonstrating
competence

Criteria for evaluating

competence

Basic knowledge
of the impact of
shipping on the
marine
environment and
the effects of
operational or
accidental
pollution on it.

Assessment of evidence
obtained from approved
instruction or during the
attendance at an approved
course

Organizational procedures
designed to safeguard the
marine environment are
observed at all times

Basic environmental
protection procedures

Basic knowledge
of complexity
and diversity of
the marine
environment

New STCW texts

Competence

Ensure compliance
with pollutionprevention
requirements

Knowledge,
understanding
and proficiency

Methods for
demonstrating
competence

Criteria for
evaluating
competence

Prevention of pollution
of the marine
environment and antipollution measures

Examination and
assessment of evidence
obtained from on or
more of the following:

Knowledge of the
precautions to be taken
to prevent pollution of
the marine
environment

Procedure for
monitoring ship-board
operations and
ensuring compliance
with requirements are
fully observed

.1 approved in-service
experience

Anti-pollution
procedures and all
associated equipment

Importance of
proactive
measures to
protect the
marine
environment

.2 approved training
ship experience

approved
training
.3

Actions ensure
that a positive
environmental
reputation is
maintained.

Development of an IMO Model Course

Marine Environmental Awareness (MEA)
ISM, existing Model Courses, ISO
14001 and other environmental-based
instruments
MEA is not inventing another Green
Wheel, but a parallel instrument
providing a catalyst for increasing
professional seaman ship

Marine
Environmental
Awareness
Model
Course

Marine Awareness Training for

Officers and Ratings
Its all about the Human Element
MC MEA and ProSea focuses on the human
role and perspective and awareness rather than
knowledge of exisiting policies and regulations
Providing Perspective when Acting

Involvement of all levels

Marine Awareness
Role - Model Course
Providing the good example = important!

So How do existing ProSea

courses and the IMO MC relate to
ships waste and EU Dir 2000/59?

Revised IMO STCW will enter into force in 2012

By then, Marine Environmental Awareness will be
obligatory for every seafarer!
IMO MC will offer Minimum Standards of MEA
world-wide
Revised EU Dir 2000/59 could assist in increasing
Marine Awareness among EU ports and seafarers:
on board of EU flagged vessels and other
And what are our experiences during the
ProSea courses when it comes to ships waste?

Course Example: behaviour -people P

Enquiry among 400 cadets from Naval Colleges (2003-2004)
who had followed traineeships on Dutch and Scandinavian
vessels.
Who threw/had to throw things over the side?

>75% threw garbage overboard

Main reasons for dumping:
83% easy to get rid of
74% convenient
63% dont understand the consequences
57% saves time
38% saves money

Other findings/experiences during ProSea courses

(n= > 5,000 course attendants during 1998-2010)
Make disposal of ships waste as easy and efficient as possible
This means, in practice, a combination of the Antwerp-RotterdamHamburg approach and the Scandinavian (unlimited discharge)
approach
Course attendees are almost totally- unfamiliar with IMO form for
reporting inadequacy of PRFs

ProSeas general conclusion is that the still existing lack of using

PRFs is a combination of (in order of importance):
1.

Lack of awareness of effects of marine litter in the marine and

coastal environment - at ship as well as shore level

2.

Non uniformity of systems in port and waste treatment ashore

3.

Lack of enforcement/control

4.

Non-existing or insufficiently operating PRFs world wide

Proposal ProSea i.r.t. revision of EU 2000/59

In revised EU Dir 2000/59, refer to STCW as an important instrument
to increase awareness of seafarers, port personnel and other
relevant stakeholders
Use momentum of revised instruments STCW and EU DIR
2000/59 to increase EU wide involvement of shipping companies,
ports and waste companies, in the form of practical awareness and
implementation workshops (possibilities funding from EU/ EC?)
Work together within EU to agree on an IMO level on the new ISO
standards for waste separation, storage and treatment on board
(could well be part of workshops)
Carrot and the Stick principle: Besides awareness and financial
incentives (Carrot) use of enforcement (Stick ) for
structural non-compliance

But

ProSea believes A World Can Be Won with

increased marine awareness