Water Wastes Management In Klaipėda Sea Port

Introducion. Klaipėda port. Klaipeda state seaport authority. Safety and security in klaipėda port. Documents flow analysis oil waste management in klaipėda port. Work flows of the management of oily water and waste. Definition of sewage according to marpol 73/78 annex iv and sewage handling options. Procedures for the reception and collection of ship-generated waste and cargo residues.

Klaipėda sea port is the most north-distant icefree port in the Eastern Baltic Sea. It is the most important and biggest transport unit in the Republic of Lithuania connecting the sea, the overland and the railway from the east and the west. The port is capable of reloading up to 40 million tons of various cargoes and serves more than 8000 ships that, in one way or another, provide the conditions for accumulation of big amounts of different waste which the port manages to fix within the framework of the waste treatment plan. In ports, including Klaipėda sea port, specific kind of waste is formed - so called engine bilge water. It is specific water, hazardous to the environment as it is a liquid compound of water and oil products acquiring special properties during its collection and treatment processes. The treatment processes of this type of waste require a variety of different equipment and technological processes, special control related to combustibility and inflammability in conformity to the International and EU Regulations on the waste treatment. For this reason, analysis of specific streams of waste treatment and enhancement of effectiveness of environmental protection are of great importance.

2) on KSSPD requirements to perform waste collection safely, skillfully, without causing risk to the other port proceedings systems and keeping to safety, climate and other requirements.

WORK FLOWS OF THE MANAGEMENT OF OILY WATER AND WASTE

when they enter Klaipėda port. A part of ships that have on board some ballast water deliver it directly to oil loading companies. The other part of ships that contain engine bilge water must deliver it according to valid documents to the waste management operator. The operator collects the waste into specialpurpose ships – bunkers that have the suitable equipment and skilled personnel for collecting oilpolluted water. These ships work 24 hours a day. Engine bilge water, spilled oil products or cargo remnants are delivered by an operator to the operating and maintained primary oil polluted water treatment equipment. Waste generated during nogood transportation of liquid hazardous substances is collected under the requirements of the. Marpol Appendix 2. Port dispatcher organizes collection of domestic waste and hazardous/harmful waste. Trash is collected by means of specific ships or specific transport keeping to the Marpol Appendix 5 requirements. Companies that collect and utilize waste and cargo remnants according to the valid documents record have to hand the monthly reports to KSSPD up to the 10th of the next month to (VĮ KVJUD, 2003; MARPOL CONSOLIDATED EDITION, 2006).