Air Quality Management

Ellen Kaasik Head of Quality and Environmental Management Department

05.03.2019 Seminar „Air Pollution in Ports“

TRANSPORT WEEK, Gdynia

Structure of presentation

1. General background about Port of Tallinn

2. Environmental issues connected to the Port of Tallinn

3. Air quality monitoring in Muuga Harbour

Organization The company in a nutshell

• Port of Tallinn is a landlord port

• We provide infrastructure – land, quays and sea approaches

• Private operators provide superstructure: handling equipment and warehousing

Governance Listed on Nasdaq Tallinn SE since 13.06.2018

67% Republic of Estonia

33% Investment funds, pension funds, private investors

6 members, appointed by shareholders meeting

3 members, appointed by Supervisory Board

Results in 2018 of The Port of Tallinn

• 20.6 million tons of cargo

• 222,654 TEU containers

• 10.6 million passengers

• 1754 cargo ship calls

• 5550 passenger ship calls

• 348 cruise ship calls

HARBOURS FROM CARGO TO CRUISE Muuga Harbour

Old City Harbour

Paldiski South Harbour

Saaremaa Harbour

Tallinn

Old City Marina

MUUGA HARBOUR Estonia’s Biggest Cargo Harbour

TERRITORY AQUATORY

TOTAL LENGTH OF BERTHS NUMBER OF BERTHS

MAX. DEPTH MAX. LENGTH OF A VESSEL

567 ha 682 ha 6,4 km 29 18 m 300+ m

Containers, liquid bulk, solid bulk, general cargo, Ro-Ro

TERRITORY AQUATORY

TOTAL LENGTH OF BERTHS NUMBER OF BERTHS

MAX. DEPTH MAX. LENGTH OF A VESSEL

119 ha 147 ha 1,85 km 10 14,5 m 230 m

PALDISKI SOUTH HARBOUR Port of Tallinn’s Second Biggest Cargo Harbour

Ro-Ro, general cargo, solid bulk, liquid bulk

TERRITORY AQUATORY

TOTAL LENGTH OF BERTHS NUMBER OF BERTHS

MAX. DEPTH MAX. LENGTH OF A VESSEL

20 ha 41 ha 445 m 3 + ujuvkai 10 m 200 m

SAAREMAA HARBOUR Deepwater Harbour on Estonia’ Biggest Island

Passengers (yachts & cruises), cargo

OLD CITY HARBOUR Estonia’s Biggest Tourism Gateway

TERRITORY AQUATORY

TOTAL LENGTH OF BERTHS NUMBER OF BERTHS

MAX. DEPTH MAX. LENGTH OF A VESSEL

55.3 ha 94 ha 5 km 24 10.7 m 340+ m

Passengers (ferries, cruises, yachts), Ro-Ro

Port of Tallinn

ENVIRONMENTAL PRIORITIES

Top 10 Environmental Priorities of European Ports

ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVITIES

• Port of Tallinn is obliged to perform EIA, marine environment monitoring due to development activity (quay construction, dredging work, filling work, etc). The obligation has been stipulated in environmental permits issued in relation to construction activity

• Port of Tallinn does not perform EIA, environmental monitoring by itself, as our staff does not include respective experts. Public procurement is organized for performing of EIA and monitoring, which criteria in addition to price also include experience and high level in performing of respective work

Our partners

• Estonian Environmental Research Centre, Comon Invent Marine Systems Institute, Tallinn University of Technology

• Estonian Marine Institute, University of Tartu

• different EIA experts

AIR QUALITY

Air Quality Problems

• The residential areas nearby Muuga harbour (oil terminals) have been complaining bad air quality during several years

• During recent years the real estate development has been very intense in the area

• The conflict of interests between development of residential areas and industry were already preprogrammed into land planning process

Muuga 1

Muuga 2

Maardu 1

Maardu 2

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Muuga 3 Muuga Harbour

Air Surveillance

Information to Public

Real time air quality data is available to public via Internet page: http://airviro.klab.ee/

Cooperation for improvement of air quality in Muuga Harbour

• Oil Terminal Operators

• Port Authority

• Environmental Inspectorate

• Environmental Research Center

• Environmental Board

• Ministry of Environment

e-Nose system

• eNoses are designed for continuous gas emission detection

• eNoses provide information about the rise and spread of gas emissions

• eNoses contribute to a pro-active odour & gas emission management

• eNoses are NO GAS ANALYSERS! Complementary to human nose

Monitoring air quality & detecting anomalies • Reducing the risk of noxious air pollution caused by oil comanies

• Detecting anomalies in air composition

• Getting updated info about the sources of anomalies – 24/7 online data, updated every minute

Remote

server

Raw eNose & meteo (GPRS)

Annoyed citizens

Expert perceptions

Live stream web-based dashboard

Post processing * Data-analysis

* Characterization

* Training & Testing

Export historic data (e.g XLS)

Real-time information about the presence and spread of industrial emissions

Comon Websuite – Online platform

Example Good relation between eNose and odour complaints

Summarized

• eNoses are NO GAS ANALYSERS! Complementary to human nose

• eNoses provide real-time insights in the rise and spread of gas emissions

• eNoses are continuously exposed to ambient air (24/7)

• Early detection of events that could cause odour nuisance & gas emission related risks

• Gives good indication of historical & current air composition

• eNoses provide information that can be applied for emission tracking and tracing

• eNoses provide indicative information about the gas type causing irregularities in the air composition

• Continious improvement (enlarge of Network, fingerprint development etc)

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