While gathering information about oil transportation for VTT Publication 547 Oil transportation and terminal development in the Gulf of Finland (2004) the question about other harmful substances transported in liquid bulk was raised. The SYKE (Finnish Ministry of the Environment, Finnish Environment Institute) and FMA (Finnish Maritime Administration) have made it possible to continue the work on tanker transportations by financing this study. The area has been widened to cover the entire Baltic Sea. This publication introduces the statistics concerning the chemicals handled in liquid bulk in the Baltic Sea ports in 2004. Some of the ports have expressed their concern about giving what they consider to be sensitive information; alas, the data in this report is not to be considered full and complete, but it does give an indication of where chemical tankers are sailing. Marine chemical transportation is constantly growing in regard of the number of chemicals and the total volume of goods transported. Today, the number of different substances and compounds is quoted in thousands. A great many of these chemicals are dangerous to the environment, and even though the risk of a chemical accident is considered small due to very high standards regarding safety, it does exist. Based on the statistics, the most important chemicals transported in the Baltic were chosen for further examination.
Transportation of liquid bulk chemicals by tankers in the Baltic Sea
Tankertransport von Flüssigchemikalien auf der Ostsee
VTT Publications ; 595 ; 1-155
2006
155 Seiten, Bilder, Tabellen, Quellen
Report
English
Ostsee , Tanker , Transport , Chemikalie , Flüssigkeit , statistische Daten
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