THE GREEN WAVEDecember 2014, No 39

The approaching end of another year is an ideal time to take stock. This year, 2014, has been a packed one for Green Marine! The environmental program is radiating with activity and has welcomed many new members: 11 new participants, 10 new partners and, in terms of endorsement, three new associations and two new supporters.

A positive upward trend continued in the evaluation results of the participants in the Green Marine environmen-tal program. The overall average climbed to 3.1 (from 3.0 a year earlier) on a scale of 1 to 5. The results were announced at our annual conference, GreenTech 2014, which was held with great success in Saint John, New

Brunswick, in June.

Our team is also on the rise with this year’s hiring of Eleanor Kirtley as Green Marine’s West Coast program manager based in Seattle, Washington. Her responsibilities include serving and recruiting West

Coast members and collaborating with the West Coast advisory committee.

It’s with great pride that Green Marine also launched its new look and new website in 2014! Response to Green Marine’s fresh branding has been very

positive.

In short, it’s been a great year of new contributors, new challenges and new achievements in the spirit of continual improvement

that’s at the heart of the Green Marine environmental program!

Finally, we would like to take a moment this holiday season to thank you for your support and to wish you happy holidays and a pros-

perous and increasingly sustainable New Year!

– The Green Marine Team

GREEN MARINE WELCOMES A NEW PARTICIPANT

The Port of Longview is the first full-service operating port on the deep-draft Columbia River shipping channel in Sou-thwest Washington. Located 66 river miles from the Pacific Ocean, the Port’s facilities include eight marine terminals. Cargo-handling specialties include bulk and breakbulk commodities such as logs, steel, project cargo and dry bulk agricultural and industrial products

GREEN MARINE WELCOMES A NEW SUPPORTER

2014 SELF-EVALUATION GUIDES

UPCOMING EVENTS

Ocean Networks Canada, an initiative of the University of Victoria, operates the world’s most advanced cabled ocean observatories off the coast of British Colum-bia and in the Canadian Arctic. Ocean Networks Canada has recently launched the Smart Oceans Systems,™ a program that harnesses science and research with its world-leading technology to deliver both data and data management and archival products to improve marine and public safety, as well as the environmental moni-toring of Canada’s coastal and offshore ocean areas..

With the year quickly coming to an end, it will soon be time for participants of the Green Marine environmental program to assess their environmental perfor-mance for 2014. Self-evaluations are due April 1st, 2015. The self-evaluations will relate each participant’s performance from January 1st through December 31st, 2014. The new 2014 self-evaluation guides are now ready and available on line. To facilitate this yearly evaluation process, we developed three distinct guides: one for ship owners; one for ports and the Seaway corporations; and, one for terminals and shipyards.

Self-evaluation guides for download

Great Lakes Advisory CommitteeMembers of Green Marine’s Great Lakes Advisory Committee will meet January 15th. The meeting will take place at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto, where a number of the members will also attend the Chamber of Marine Commerce Annual Marine Club Luncheon.January15 2015, Royal York Hotel, Toronto

Quebec’s maritime strategy day: Perspectives, challenges, and business opportunitiesFor the first time in its history, the province of Quebec has a maritime strategy. The flagship initiative by the current Liberal government aims to bolster the economy, create jobs and entice investment through a com-prehensive approach to broadening maritime infrastructure, transportation and leisure travel. The day chai-red by Nicole Trépanier, the president of SODES (the St-Lawrence Economic Development Council), is not to be missed with key aspects of the St. Lawrence River’s future being discussed. David Bolduc, Green Marine’s executive director, has been invited to address some of the marine industry’s sustainability challenges going forward. February 10 2015, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Montréal

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Green Marine’s next expedition – GreenTech 2015 – is set for Seattle, WA, from May 27th to 29th. Register now for Green Marine’s first conference on the U.S. West Coast! The conference will be held at the Renaissance Seattle Hotel. Home of the 10th largest U.S. port in terms of TEUs, welcoming 800,000-plus cruise passengers yearly, and dubbed the Emerald City for all its greenery, Seattle is the perfect GreenTech destination. Green Marine’s Certification Ceremony will take place at the Seattle Aquarium, renowned for its marine conservation.

Register for GreenTech 2015

Reservations made at the Seattle Renaissance Hotel after May 5th will not be guaranteed at the group rate of $195 per night.

Book your room now

As every year, GreenTech 2015 will hold a commercial exhibition. The Green Marine conference has earned an enviable reputation in terms of networking, information-sharing, as well as access to information regarding cutting-edge marine technology.

Green Marine invites all of its partners, participants and supporters to take part as exhibitors in this key marine transportation community event. GreenTech sessions focus on real-life experiences, case studies and/or lea-ding-edge research that show delegates how best practices, new technologies and insightful partnerships make an environmental difference. The conference targets all companies and organizations involved in im-proving the marine industry’s environmental performance, with a particular focus on Green Marine members.The exhibition will take place in the Courtyard Ballroom, below the Madison Ballroom Salons A, B & C where all sessions will be held. Exhibitors are asked to indicate their #1 and #2 choices for booth location on the Exhi-bitor’s form. Please note that booths are limited and will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis upon receipt of payment.

The booth set-up will take place on Wednesday, May 27th, between 1 and 4 pm, and dismantling is planned for May 29th, starting at 4 pm.

Reserve your booth now!

Green Marine’s annual conference is always a great way to promote your sustainability commitment, show-case your products and services, and ensure great visibility for your organization.We are counting on the maritime community and its willingness to continue to improve its environment per-formance to make GreenTech 2015 as big a success as past conferences. The annual conference also enables Green Marine to tangibly pursue its mission with all of the profits generated by the event being reinvested into further improving the environmental program.GreenTech 2015 enables you to choose the level of commitment and type of visibility you want!

For more information, see the Sponsorship Plan.

GREENTECH 2015 !

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One of Fednav’s vessels has earned a perfect rating with the ship-vetting experts at RightShip. The Federal Tyne received a five-star risk rating, a five-star environmental rating, and a greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions

rating of A+ in October 2014. Of the approxi-mately 18,000 bulk carriers in service currently, only 26 vessels have a five-star rating for both risk and environmental aspects, and six of them are owned by Fednav. The Federal Tyne further distinguishes itself by having a perfect GHG emissions score of A+, and is one of only two such elite bulk carriers in the world.Through a long-term charter arrangement with Intership Navigation, Fednav is adding three more new lakers to its fleet. These 36,500-DWT

vessels, scheduled for delivery in 2016 and 2017, further reinforce Fednav’s commitment to the future of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway.

Federal Tyne receives a Five-sTar raTing

INDUSTRY SUCCESS STORIES

The CSL St-Laurent – the second of two new Trillium Class Great Lakes bulk carriers built for Canada Steam-ship Lines (CSL) – was delivered on November 26, and began her maiden voyage on December 13th. The bulk carrier departed from the Yangfan shipyard on Zhoushan Island in China, en route to Canada for operation throu-ghout the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River.CSL St-Laurent marks the successful completion of CSL’s audacious new-build program, which began with the delivery in December 2012 of the award-winning Trillium Class self-unloading laker Baie St. Paul. Three other Tril-lium Class self-unloading lakers have since been intro-duced to the Great Lakes fleet: the Baie Comeau, Thunder Bay and Whitefish Bay. Two bulk carriers – the CSL St-Lau-rent and CSL Welland – will both commence operating at the start of the 2015 Seaway season.The Trillium Class new-build program also oversaw the delivery of three Panamax self-unloaders for CSL Ameri-cas and named the Rt. Hon. Paul E. Martin, CSL Tecumseh and CSL Tacoma.

csl sT-laurenT begins maiden voyage

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SHIPOWNERS• Algoma Central Corporation• Atlantic Towing Limited• Canada Steamship Lines• Canfornav• Cogema• Croisières AML• CSL International• CTMA Group• Fednav Limited• Groupe Desgagnés• Island Tug and Barge• Lower Lakes Towing Limited• Marine Atlantic Inc.• McAsphalt Marine Transportation Ltd. • McKeil Marine• North Arm Transportation• Ocean Group• Oceanex• Reformar• Seaspan ULC• SMIT• Société des Traversiers du Québec• SVITZER Canada• TBS Shipping Services Inc./Roymar Ship Management

PORTS & SEAWAY• Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority• Duluth Seaway Port Authority• Greater Victoria Harbour Authority• Halifax Port Authority• Hamilton Port Authority• Illinois International Port District• Montréal Port Authority• Nanaimo Port Authority• Port Metro Vancouver• Port of Gulfport (Mississippi State Port Authority)• Port of Indiana - Burns Harbor• Port of Longview• Port of Milwaukee• Port of New Orleans• Port of Seattle• Port of Valleyfield• Prince Rupert Port Authority• Québec Port Authority

• Saint John Port authority, NB• Saguenay Port Authority• Sept-Îles Port Authority• St. John’s Port Authority, NL• Thunder Bay Port Authority• Toronto Port Authority• Trois-Rivières Port Authority• Windsor Port Authority• St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corp.• St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corp.

TERMINALS & SHIPYARDS• Bunge of Canada• Ceres Terminals Inc.• Empire Stevedoring Company Limited• Federal Marine Terminals• Fraser Surrey Docks• GCT Global Container Terminals Inc.• Groupe Desgagnés (Relais Nordik Sept-Îles)• Imperial Oil (Esso)• IOC (Iron Ore Company, Sept-Îles)• Logistec Corporation• Marine Atlantic Inc. • Maher Terminals Holding Corp.• Marine Recycling Corporation• McAsphalt Industries Limited • Montreal Gateway Terminals Partnership• Neptune Terminals• Norcan Petroleum Group• Northern Stevedoring • Ocean Industries (shipyard)• Pacific Coast Terminals• Pinnacle Renewable Energy (Westview Terminal)• Porlier Express• Ridley Terminals Inc.• Rio Tinto Alcan (Port-Alfred)• Seaspan ULC (shipyards)• Squamish Terminals• Sterling Marine Fuels (Windsor Terminal)• Suncor (Montreal Refinery)• Termont Montreal • Valero (Jean-Gauvin Refinery)• Valleytank• Valport• Westridge Terminal (Kinder Morgan Canada)• Westshore Terminals

• American Association of Port Authorities• American Great Lakes Ports Association• Association of Canadian Port Authorities • BC Wharf Operators’ Association• Canadian Ferry Operators Association• Canadian Marine Pilots Association• Canadian Shipowners Association• Chamber of Marine Commerce

• Chamber of Shipping of British Columbia• Council of Marine Carriers• International Ship-Owners Alliance of Canada• Ontario Marine Transportation Forum• Shipping Federation of Canada• St. Lawrence Economic Development Council• St. Lawrence Shipoperators• U.S. Great Lakes Shipping Association

GREEN MARINE | PARTICIPANTS

GREEN MARINE | ASSOCIATIONS

GREEN MARINEPARTNERSINDUSTRY SUPPLIERS• ABB Turbocharging• American Bureau of Shipping• American Chemical Technologies • Bell Marine & Mill Supply• BG Group• Canadian International Bureau of

Shipping• Concept Naval• Conflow Technologies• DNV GL• Drew Marine• Envirochem• Envirolin Canada• Environmental Analytical Systems• Environmental Solutions Inc.• Filtramax• FRS Instrumentation & Controls Inc.• Gaz Metro • Hemmera• Hermont Marine• Hydrex LLC• International Paint• Ionada• Jastram Technologies Ltd

• KRAL• Lloyd’s Register North America• Marine and Offshore Canada• Marine Clean Ltd.• MSi3D• OpDAQ Systems• PESCA Environnement• Progress Energy Canada Ltd, Pacific

Northwest LNG• Pronova Systems Inc.• Quickload CEF• RBM HoldSolutions• Schneider Electric• Scott’s Marine Interiors• Seagulf Marine Industries Inc.• S.I.G.E.I.M Inc.• SNC-Lavalin Environment• Techsol Marine• The Glosten Associates• Thordon Bearings Inc. • Tidal Transport & Trading• Total Marine Solutions Inc.• Urgence Marine Inc.• V.Ships Canada Inc.

• VapCor Inc.• Ventus Development Services Inc.• Vickers Oil• Wärtsilä Canada• WSP Canada

SHIPPERS• Aluminerie Alouette• Canadian Salt Company Limited

OTHER ORGANIZATIONS • Atlantic Pilotage Authority• CSMOIM• Corp. des pilotes du St-Laurent Central• Corp. of Lower St. Lawrence Pilots• Georgian College’s Great Lakes Int.

Marine Training Centre• Great Lakes Pilotage Authority• Laurentian Pilotage Authority• Maritime Innovation• Pacific Pilotage Authority• Rightship Americas• Western Canada Marine Response Corpo-

ration

GREEN MARINESUPPORTERSGOVERNMENTS• Environment Canada • Fisheries and Oceans Canada• Ministère de l’Énergie et des Res-

sources naturelles du Québec• Ministère des Transports du

Québec• Ministère du Développement

durable, de l’Environnement et de la Lutte aux Changements Clima-tiques du Québec

• Ministry of Transportation of Ontario

• Transport CanadaMUNICIPALITIES• Board of Harbor Commissioners of

the City of Milwaukee• City of Bécancour• City of Calixa-Lavallée• City of Contrecoeur • City of Longueuil• City of Matane

• City of Montréal• City of Montréal-Est• City of Port-Cartier• City of Québec• City of Saint-Amable• City of Sept-Îles• City of Varennes• Communauté métropolitaine de

Québec• Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities

Initiative• Marguerite-D’Youville MRCENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS AND NGO’S• Carbon War Room• Ducks Unlimited Canada• Georgia Strait Alliance• Georgian Bay Forever• International Secretariat for Water• Les Amis de la vallée du Saint-Lau-

rent• Nature Québec

• Ocean Networks Canada• One Drop• Réseau d’observation de mammifères

marins (ROMM)• Sedna Foundation• Stratégies Saint-Laurent (6 ZIP

Committees)• World Wildlife Fund CanadaOTHERS

• CPEQ• EcoMaris• Northwest Community College• Promotion Saguenay• Seattle Aquarium• Société de promotion économique

de Rimouski• St. Lawrence River Institute of Envi-

ronmental Sciences• Technopole Maritime du Québec• Vancouver Aquarium