The environmental monitoring of Finnish ports

• Olli-Pekka Brunila ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Turku

     University of Turku

     Turku, Finlandia

     
• Localización: Maritime Transport'14 / coord. por Francisco Javier Martínez de Osés, Marcella Castells Sanabra, 2014, ISBN 978-84-9880-483-6, págs. 681-695
• Idioma: español
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  • Different regulations in the European Union influence the functioning and management of European ports. In Finland, environmental monitoring is carried out in connection to the environmental permit of the port and to the requirements set by legislation and other forms of regulatory measures. When environmental information is collected, the basic principles for all the collected data are comparability, balance between problematic questions and opportunities, continuity, clarity and understandability. It must be noted that the comparison of information must be possible so that the changes in the level of environmental protection can be established. The Port of HaminaKotka is the biggest universal port in Finland. In this case, the development of the emissions to air, amount of waste, water monitoring and noise levels in the past years have been examined. According to the results, the emissions levels have decreased, but there is still a lot to do in the field of environmental protection. Environmental monitoring is often criticized as being expensive and wasteful. In this case, the total costs of environmental monitoring in the port of HaminaKotka have been calculated.