European Maritime Safety Agency

Available now to download, the second edition of the European Maritime Transport Environmental Report #EMTER. A joint report by EMSA and the European Environment Agency, EMTER contains fully updated facts and data, the report provides a comprehensive overview of the environmental pressures exerted by the maritime transport sector across a wide range of indicators. EMTER also analyses current and future actions to reduce the maritime sector's impact on our environment, including in the context of new legislation on maritime decarbonisation supporting the European Green Deal. Get the report here: https://lnkd.in/dp28BNQs

This was the week in which we launched our European Maritime Transport Environmental Report #EMTER with our colleagues in the European Environment Agency EMTER is the first comprehensive overview of the environmental footprint of the maritime transport sector in the EU. It gives a factual analysis of the environmental pressures exerted by maritime transport, assessing progress made in recent years, and highlighting the interconnection of maritime activities with broader ecological, economic, and social systems. Watch the highlights of our conference, with speakers Apostolos Tzitzikostas, Maja Markovčić Kostelac, Leena Yla-Mononen, Beatriz Yordi, and Wojciech Zdanowicz and download the report here: https://lnkd.in/dV8XxvPd #ocean #sustainability #shipping #maritime #transport

The 21st Inter-Secretariat meeting between Regional Agreement Secretariats, the European Commission and EMSA, is taking place in Norway and online, kindly hosted this year by the Copenhagen Agreement Secretariat. These annually held meetings provide a unique forum for exchanging information, sharing good practice and providing inter-regional updates on ongoing work and on topics of common interest in the field of oil and HNS marine pollution prevention, preparedness and response. We look forward to a fruitful meeting and interesting inter-regional exchanges.

Today our Executive Director Maja Markovčić Kostelac welcomed the Minister of European Affairs of Denmark, Marie Bjerre, to our Lisbon headquarters. Minister Bjerre and Ms Markovčić Kostelac discussed EMSA’s role and activities, before the Minister and her team paid a visit to our Maritime Support Services centre to see our operational work in action.

With closing speeches from Beatriz Yordi, Director, Directorate-General Climate Action EU Environment and Climate at the European Commission, Wojciech Zdanowicz, Director, Maritime Office in Szczecin and the Chair of EMSA's Administrative Board, Martin Adams, Head of Department Environment at the European Environment Agency, and our Executive Director Maja Markovčić Kostelac, the launch of the European Maritime Transport Environmental Report is over! Thank you to all our participants, panellists, moderators, and all who joined us online. Download the report here: https://lnkd.in/dV8XxvPd  

Our second roundtable, on pollution and the marine ecosystem, got underway this afternoon at our high-level conference to launch the second edition of the European Maritime Transport Environmental Report #EMTER. Moderated by Humberto Rosa, Director at the Directorate-General for the Environment at the European Commission, our panellists discussed a wide range of issues and pressures linked to marine pollution. Panellists also reviewed technological developments, industry trends, international cooperation and the role of legislation in combatting marine pollution.

Discussing a whole range of subjects linked to maritime decarbonisation, from energy supplies to alternative fuels, from the 70% drop in sulphur emissions to new EU legislation, our first expert roundtable is underway at the #EMTER launch event, broadcast live from our Lisbon headquarters! Under the expert moderation of Fotini Ioannidou, Director Waterborne at the Directorate General for Mobility and Transport at the European Commission, our panellists, Minna Kivimäki from Liikenne- ja viestintäministeriö - Ministry of Transport and Communications, FI, Benito Núñez from Ministerio de Transportes y Movilidad Sostenible, Eric BANEL from Mer et Pêche, Sotiris Raptis from European Community Shipowners' Associations (ECSA), Isabelle Ryckbost from European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO), and william todts from T&E, looked at what has already been done to decarbonise maritime, and what remains to be done in the future. Follow the launch live: https://lnkd.in/dbBYAvgg

Today, with the European Environment Agency, we’re proud to launch the second edition of the European Maritime Transport Environmental Report #EMTER.   With fully updated facts and data, the report provides a comprehensive overview of the environmental pressures exerted by the maritime transport sector across a wide range of indicators.    The report was presented today by our Executive Director, Maja Markovčić Kostelac and the Executive Director of the European Environment Agency, Leena Yla-Mononen, in the presence of the European Commissioner for Sustainable Transport and Tourism, Apostolos Tzitzikostas.    Read the #EMTER report here: https://lnkd.in/dV8XxvPd     Access a summary of #EMTER in 24 EU languages: https://lnkd.in/d8mppKaJ Follow the launch live: https://lnkd.in/dpkZb9di  

“EMTER is unique. It is a single source of facts and data, now fully updated, on the environmental footprint of the maritime transport sector in the EU. It brings together information across a wide range of indicators, giving a 360-degree view not just of what is happening now, but also of future trends and developments. And now, more than ever, EMTER is needed.”    Our Executive Director, Maja Markovčić Kostelac, opening our launch of the European Maritime Transport Environmental Report, jointly produced with the European Environment Agency.    Read the #EMTER the report here: https://lnkd.in/dV8XxvPd Follow the event live: https://lnkd.in/dpkZb9di

Today we were delighted to welcome Apostolos Tzitzikostas, European Commissioner for Sustainable Transport and Tourism, to our EMSA headquarters. Commissioner Tzitzikostas met our Executive Director, Maja Markovčić Kostelac, and her senior management team, before visiting our Maritime Support Services (MSS) centre to see our work in action. Later, Commissioner Tzitzikostas met with EMSA's staff.