THEME 2: SHIPBUILDIND ANS LEISURE BOAT-BUILDING

THEME 5: COASTAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT

Ships in operation produce a range of different types of waste – solid, liquid and gas – which used to be discharged into the environment and which include rubbish, grey water from sinks, washbasins, dishwashers and washing machines, black water from toilets, bilge water containing or free from hydrocarbons, water from vessel cleaning, exhaust fumes and emissions from tank and hold ventilation systems. But times have changed. Environmental concerns have been translated into increasingly restrictive norms and regulations, supported in particular by the International Maritime Organisation. “Clean shipping” has today become a statutory obligation for those working in merchant and naval shipbuilding and repair. For ship owners, possessing an environmentally friendly fleet is a question of image and represents a commercial advantage, enabling them to approach their markets differently and to operate in all maritime zones.

Existing ships are currently equipped with various types of waste storage and treatment systems. Equipment add-ons, which vary depending on the type of transportation, do not allow a global overview of emissions for each ship, and often result in cumbersome and even inappropriate systems being installed in what are necessarily confined spaces.

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NACRE offers a global environmental approach, comprising both diagnostic and technological solutions. It involves initial measurement of the overall environmental footprint of different types of ships in operation, taking account of all their emissions, as well as their specific operational conditions. NACRE then puts forward economically viable technical solutions to suit the space available and the operational methods of different types of vessels: compact format, low energy consumption and compatibility with platform movements. The equipment will go beyond existing waste norms in anticipation of changes to the regulations. Tested in real-life situations on merchant and naval ships, this innovative equipment will be incorporated into existing ships and, more particularly, into ships under construction.

Between now and 2020, the 45 000 merchant ships which make up the commercial shipping fleet worldwide will have to be brought into line with regulations. As with CONVENAV, HYCARE and PAINTCLEAN, the NACRE project is a response to environmental and economic challenges shaping the future globally of maritime transport and ship repair and maintenance. The involvement of major stakeholders in this project is evidence of their desire to anticipate changes in evolving markets and in services and equipment manufacture relating to environmentally friendly maritime transport.

NACRE PROJECT PARTNERS

Companies

• DCNS, project director, shipbuilding and maintenance, sites in Brest and Lorient,

• Bertin Technologies, TARNOS (40), Department of Energy, Process and Environment,

• Louis Dreyfus Armateurs, ship owners, Suresnes,

• GENAVIR, scientific survey fleet owner, Brest,

• Veolia Eau,

• IPL santé environnement durables Bretagne (Laboratoire CGI), Ploemeur, water quality and environmental analysis laboratory,

The Marine Nationale

• SSF, French Naval Fleet Support Services, Brest

Research and/or education and training centres

• ENSTA Bretagne, Brest, Department of Applied Mechanical Engineering Design,

• EME, Vocational Environmental Studies College, Bruz,

• ENMM, National Merchant Navy College, Nantes,

• IFREMER, Mechanical Engineering Research and Development Department, Brest.

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