Hong Kong Ferries & Boats

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Ferries exempt from new pollution rules
Paris Lord, Hong Kong Standard
January 17, 2005


Ferries can continue to use the harbor as a toilet.
KWOK TSZ-SHAN

The government wants polluters to pay, but it seems passenger ferries are immune - much to the annoyance of shipping companies.

Despite planning a new HK$19.5 billion scheme to improve sewage treatment before it is discharged into the harbor, the government does not intend tightening regulations governing sewage from passenger ferries.

While larger vessels will have to abide by stricter pollution regulations being introduced this year, passenger ferries will not.

That is because the latter are too small to include treatment facilities, meaning they will continue to discharge raw sewage into the harbor.

Environmental officials say that is acceptable because the amount the ferries produce is a fraction of all sewage discharged into the harbor each day.

But the shipping industry argues there is one set of rules for international ships and one set of more lenient rules for passenger ferries and piers.

Hong Kong Ship Owners Association managing director Arthur Bowring said international container ships cannot discharge any sewage at all in Hong Kong waters. It must be stored on board, and treated before discharging at sea.

But ferries plying ports between Hong Kong, Macau and the Pearl River Delta dump raw sewage into local waters, Bowring said.

Raw sewage also enters the harbor from toilets in the outlying islands ferry piers in Central because they are not connected to the sewage system, Bowring added. The Environment, Transport and Works Bureau denies this.

Scheduled to finish in the 2011/12 financial year, the Harbor Area Treatment Scheme Stage 2A will increase sewage treatment capacity by almost 65 percent to 2.8 million cubic metres a day.

There are rules under the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, more commonly called Marpol, governing sewage. Annex IV, which comes into effect internationally on August 1, covers new ships of 400 gross tonnage and above that travel international waters and are certified to carry more than 15 people.

Existing ships must comply from August 2010.

"The annex requires ships to be equipped with either a sewage treatment plant or a sewage comminuting [pulverizing] and disinfecting system or a sewage holding tank," the International Maritime Organization, which polices Marpol, said.

"The discharge of sewage into the sea will be prohibited, except when the ship has in operation an approved sewage treatment plant, or is discharging comminuted and disinfected sewage using an approved system at a distance of more than three nautical miles from the nearest land, or is discharging sewage which is not comminuted or disinfected at a distance of more than 12 nautical miles from the nearest land."

Because China has agreed to extend the annex to Hong Kong, the SAR government is drafting new legislation, namely the Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Pollution by Sewage) Regulation under the Merchant Shipping (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Ordinance.

The new regulation covers large vessels. Most of the ferries servicing the SAR and delta's ports lack the room for sewage treatment facilities or holding tanks and so "are not required to treat the sewage in general," an Environment, Transport and Works Bureau spokeswoman said.

"The sewage produced by local and mainland vessels only account for about 0.14 per cent of the 2.3 million cubic meters of sewage generated in the territory each day," she said.

"The operation of these vessels should not present any major problem to our marine environment."

A marine biologist at the Chinese University association professor, Put O Ang, agrees.

"The boat will be moving, so even though they are discharging sewage, it will not be concentrated in one spot, and the waves and currents should be enough to dilute it," he said. "I do not think it will be a serious problem."

More worrying are boats stationary for extended periods, such as those moored in typhoon shelters, Ang added.

The bureau also dismissed Bowring's claim about Central ferry piers pumping raw sewage into the harbor.

The sewage from Hong Kong Island piers passes to the preliminary treatment works before being discharged.

"Further treatment to a higher standard will be provided under the proposed Harbor Area Treatment Scheme Stage 2," the spokeswoman said.

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Park Island Ferry by AV315-HL8446 from a Hong Kong transport forum :

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Ferry report by AV315-HL8446 from a Hong Kong transport forum :
Date: Date: 15 January, 2005
Route: Ma Wan (Park Island) > Central
Equipment: Cheoy Lee / Crowther Design 26m
Registraion: Park Island 8
Loading Factor: 30%
Dep Time: 1700
Arr Time: 1722

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