Environmental effects of marine transportation

Tony R. Walker; Olubukola Adebambo; Monica C. Del Aguila Feijoo; Elias Elhaimer; Tahazzud Hossain; Stuart Johnston Edwards; Courtney E. Morrison; Jessica Romo; Nameeta Sharma; Stephanie Taylor; Sanam Zomorodi

doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-805052-1.00030-9

Environmental effects of marine transportation

Tony R. Walker, Olubukola Adebambo, Monica C. Del Aguila Feijoo, Elias Elhaimer, Tahazzud Hossain, Stuart Johnston Edwards, Courtney E. Morrison, Jessica Romo, Nameeta Sharma, Stephanie Taylor, Sanam Zomorodi

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Abstract

Marine transportation drives global trade, moving > 10 billion tons of containers, solid, and liquid bulk cargo across the world’s seas annually. Historically, shipping companies and ports operated with limited environmental oversight, but accidental oil spills in the 1960s, caused widespread coastal pollution and seabird mortality, triggering the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL). MARPOL is the main international convention to prevent marine pollution by ships from operational or accidental causes. Additionally, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) uses various instruments to protect the marine environment from shipping activities. Nevertheless, marine transportation still generates negative impacts on the marine environment, including air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, releases of ballast water containing aquatic invasive species, historical use of antifoulants, oil and chemical spills, dry bulk cargo releases, garbage, underwater noise pollution; ship-strikes on marine megafauna, risk of ship grounding or sinkings, and widespread sediment contamination of ports during transshipment or ship breaking activities. This chapter summarizes the environmental effects of marine transportation and describes the mitigative, legislative, and environmental performance measures currently available to improve management of these global issues.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	World Seas
Subtitle of host publication	An Environmental Evaluation Volume III: Ecological Issues and Environmental Impacts
Publisher	Elsevier
Pages	505-530
Number of pages	26
ISBN (Electronic)	9780128050521
ISBN (Print)	9780128052044
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-805052-1.00030-9
Publication status	Published - Jan 1 2018

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Walker, T. R., Adebambo, O., Del Aguila Feijoo, M. C., Elhaimer, E., Hossain, T., Edwards, S. J., Morrison, C. E., Romo, J., Sharma, N., Taylor, S., & Zomorodi, S. (2018). Environmental effects of marine transportation. In World Seas: An Environmental Evaluation Volume III: Ecological Issues and Environmental Impacts (pp. 505-530). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-805052-1.00030-9

Walker, TR, Adebambo, O, Del Aguila Feijoo, MC, Elhaimer, E, Hossain, T, Edwards, SJ, Morrison, CE, Romo, J, Sharma, N, Taylor, S & Zomorodi, S 2018, Environmental effects of marine transportation. in World Seas: An Environmental Evaluation Volume III: Ecological Issues and Environmental Impacts. Elsevier, pp. 505-530. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-805052-1.00030-9

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