Green Attitude Recognition awarded to European Cruise Council

The Port of Helsinki presented the European Cruise Council (ECC) with the Green Attitude Recognition on March 16. The Recognition is for active partnership in developing an environmentally friendly port.

Regarding the Baltic Sea Challenge the cities of Helsinki and Turku made an appeal for improvement of the state of the Baltic Sea last year. The measures presented in the Baltic Sea Challenge commitment aim to decrease the burden on coastal waters and the entire Baltic Sea caused by the functions of the cities Helsinki and Turku themselves. One of the aims is to promote the practice of discharging waste water from passenger ships to city sewer system.

ECC committed to the challenge and with all of their 23 members made the commitment to discharge their waste water to the Helsinki city sewer. Another example of ECCs environmental responsibility was the Green Cruise Day organized last spring. During that day the cruise companies presented their solutions to decrease the environmental impact on cruise ships to decision-makers, environmental authorities and people living near the port.

In doing so ECC has shown not only that they respect and care about the environment but also willingness to cooperate and striving to find good mutual solutions. ECC takes its environmental responsibility seriously and set a great example to everyone.

The Port of Helsinki strives to minimize harmful environmental impacts on marine life with its customers and wants to actively contribute to the protection of the highly sensitive Baltic Sea area. The port has good wastewater reception facilities and does not charge any wastewater fees, so discharging wastewater in the Helsinki sewer system does not place any financial burden to anyone.

For more information:
Communications & Cruise Development Eeva Hietanen, tel. +358 9 310 33540.
Quality and Environmental Manager Kaarina Vuorivirta, tel. +358 9 310 33521.