Overview of some environmental issues surrounding the shipping industry: - Air pollution from the use of low-grade ‘bunker fuel’. - Marine oil pollution from ‘operational discharge’.

1. Under the Radar:
Shipping’s Dirty Secrets

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3. Shipping powers over
90% of the global
trade we depend on

4. Emission laws for
busses and lorries are
tight

5. Whilst shipping is
largely unregulated.

6. Shipping uses low-
grade, cheap ‘bunker
fuel’.

7. Bunker fuel has up to
2,000 times the
sulphur content of
diesel used in cars.

8. 70% of all ship
emissions are within
400km of land.

9. By 2020 emissions
from international
shipping around
Europe

10. Are expected to
exceed all land-based
pollution for all 27 EU
member states
combined.

11. The South-West of England borders one of
the fastest-growing shipping pollution
hotspots.

12. No comprehensive
research has been
carried out on the
effects of bunker fuel
on UK coastal
communities.

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14. Tanker and oil
platform accidents
only account for a
minor share oil spills.

15. Almost half the
world’s marine oil
pollution is
‘operational
discharge’ from oil
tankers and large
container ships.

16. Routine operations
release fuel oil
sludge, engine room
wastes, tank washing
residues and
contaminated bilge
and ballast water.

17. It is dumped at sea to
avoid the costs of safe
disposal (€0.15 per
m3).

18. Oil dumped illegally
equates to one full-
tanker disaster every
week.

19. Synthetic Aperture
Radar (SAR) sensors
on polar orbiting
satellites are now
being used to gather
evidence.

20. Synthetic Aperture
Radar (SAR) sensors
on polar orbiting
satellites are now
being used to gather
evidence.

21. Synthetic Aperture
Radar (SAR) sensors
on polar orbiting
satellites are now
being used to gather
evidence.

22. Suspect oil detected English Channel ‘08

23. Suspect oil detected in Europe 2011
Synthetic Aperture
Radar (SAR) sensors
on polar orbiting
satellites are now
being used to gather
evidence.