Jiangsu Began To Focus On Remediation Of Pollutant Emissions From Ships In The Yangtze River

It is learned from the Jiangsu Transportation Department that this year Jiangsu will speed up the improvement of the construction of ships and port pollution prevention infrastructure to ensure that all terminals complete all construction tasks of environmental protection facilities as required by the end of September.
Before the end of the year, all provincial cargo ships with a gross tonnage of less than 400 tons completed the domestic sewage anti-fouling transformation. According to the standard of one mobile ship or one fixed reception point for every 50 kilometers, the construction and operation of public pollutant reception facilities for ship pollutants in the jurisdiction area will be accelerated to achieve ship Domestic garbage, domestic sewage and oily sewage “should be collected”.
From April 20th, Jiangsu will carry out centralized rectification of pollutant emissions from inland vessels sailing in the Jiangsu section of the Yangtze River. If ships do not equip with anti-pollution facilities or collect pollutants delivered to ships, they will strictly prohibit or restrict navigation Measures such as disallowing ship locks and port loading and unloading operations are not allowed.