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Risk assessment and environmental monitoring in port areas - general overview - Rodrigo Fernandes 1

The environmental problem 2

The environmental problem ▪ Ballast water exchange: • new populations of non-indigenous species (NIS) • can cause physical and behavioral disturbances to native organisms – competition for food, space and other resources • Mixed island systems and lake, river and nearshore marine systems are especially vulnerable Potentially, this can cause severe economic and ecological damage. 3

Existing regulations on BW ▪ Exemptions to regulation D2 can be eventually granted under specific conditions (“ under scientifically robust risk assessment” ) 4

Existing regulations on BW Exemptions under Resolution MEPC.289(71): “Regulation A -4 of the Convention states that a Party or Parties, in waters under their jurisdiction may grant exemptions to any requirements to apply regulation B-3 or C-1, in addition to those exemptions contained elsewhere in the Convention, but only when they are: ▪ .1 granted to a ship or ships on a voyage or voyages between specified ports or locations; or to a ship which operates exclusively between specified ports or locations; ▪ . 2 effective for a period of no more than five years subject to intermediate review; ▪ .3 granted to ships that do not mix ballast water or sediments other than between the ports or locations specified in paragraph 2.1.1; and ▪ .4 granted based on the Guidelines for risk assessment developed by the Organization .” 5

The problem ▪ NIS associated to ballast waters are a global environmental threat to biodiversity ▪ New international law enforces ship discharge control, members-states must inspect discharges ▪ BW treatment (in ship and in ports) will not become immediately fully operational (BluePorts is trying to accelerate this transition process). Only in Sept 2024 all ships must comply D2 standard. ▪ At least before full implementation (Sept 2024), environmental risks should be contained 6

Environmental challenges: How can @BluePorts help? 1. Support ports for provision of BW treatment services (opportunity for testing & piloting mobile treatment) 2. Support national authorities with methodologies for effective and efficient ship inspections at BW discharge in port 3. Support port authorities with methodologies for adequate monitoring and risk management in the port receiving waters 4. Help national authorities with risk assessment methodologies (following IMO guidelines), for supporting granting of exemptions in the transition phase. 7

Environmental challenges: How can @BluePorts help? 1. Support ports for provision of BW treatment services (opportunity for testing & piloting mobile treatment) 2. Support national authorities with methodologies for effective and efficient ship inspections at BW discharge in port 3. Support port authorities with methodologies for adequate monitoring and risk management in the port receiving waters 4. Help national authorities with risk assessment methodologies (following IMO guidelines), for supporting granting of exemptions in the transition phase (< Sept. 2024). 8

Testing & piloting mobile treatment ▪ Work Package 4, Action 1 • Demonstrate / validate innovative PRF technologies for oiled and ballast water • InvaSave (DAMEN) 9

Environmental challenges: How can @BluePorts help? 1. Support ports for provision of BW treatment services (opportunity for testing & piloting mobile treatment) 2. Support national authorities with methodologies for effective and efficient ship inspections at BW discharge in port 3. Support port authorities with methodologies for adequate monitoring and risk management in the port receiving waters 4. Help national authorities with risk assessment methodologies (following IMO guidelines), for supporting granting of exemptions in the transition phase. 10

Environmental challenges: How can @BluePorts help? 1. Support ports for provision of BW treatment services (opportunity for testing & piloting mobile treatment) 2. Support national authorities with methodologies for effective and efficient ship inspections at BW discharge in port 3. Support port authorities with methodologies for adequate monitoring and risk management in the port receiving waters 4. Help national authorities with risk assessment methodologies (following IMO guidelines), for supporting granting of exemptions in the transition phase. 11

BW quality compliance control ▪ Available tools and technologies • B-QUA toolkit from LuminUltra 12

Environmental challenges: How can @BluePorts help? 1. Support ports for provision of BW treatment services (opportunity for testing & piloting mobile treatment) 2. Support national authorities with methodologies for effective and efficient ship inspections at BW discharge in port 3. Support port authorities with methodologies for adequate monitoring and risk management in the port receiving waters 4. Help national authorities with risk assessment methodologies (following IMO guidelines), for supporting granting of exemptions in the transition phase. 13

Environmental challenges: How can @BluePorts help? 1. Support ports for provision of BW treatment services (opportunity for testing & piloting mobile treatment) 2. Support national authorities with methodologies for effective and efficient ship inspections at BW discharge in port 3. Support port authorities with methodologies for adequate monitoring and risk management in the port receiving waters 4. Help national authorities with risk assessment methodologies (following IMO guidelines), for supporting granting of exemptions in the transition phase. 14

Environmental monitoring & risk management ▪ Data | Data collection • In-situ classical sampling • Sensor data ▪ Information | Processing & exploitation • Image processing (e.g. satellite imagery) • Data triangulation (e.g. digital terrain models) ▪ Intelligence / Knowledge | Analysis and production • Modelling • Data interpretation • Machine learning / artificial intelligence 15

Environmental monitoring & risk management ▪ Data | Data collection • In-situ classical sampling • Sensor data ▪ Information | Processing & exploitation • Image processing (e.g. satellite imagery) • Data triangulation (e.g. digital terrain models) ▪ Intelligence / Knowledge | Analysis and production • Modelling • Data interpretation • Machine learning / artificial intelligence 16

Environmental monitoring & risk management in Atlantic ▪ Systems integrating data, information and intelligence: • Work done in MARPOCS project • Port of Lisbon and ACTION Seaport 17

Marpocs Platform ▪ Virtual Stations (Data collection vs. models) • Fuerteventura airport (air temperature)

ACTION Seaport 19

ACTION Seaport Dynamic Map High resolution forecasts for waves, currents and meteorology 20

ACTION Seaport Dashboards 21

ACTION Seaport Water simulations On-demand simulations for oil and chemical spills, floating objects and water releases (e.g. ballast waters) 22

Environmental challenges: How can @BluePorts help? 1. Support ports for provision of BW treatment services (opportunity for testing & piloting mobile treatment) 2. Support national authorities with methodologies for effective and efficient ship inspections at BW discharge in port 3. Support port authorities with methodologies for adequate monitoring and risk management in the port receiving waters 4. Help national authorities with risk assessment methodologies (following IMO guidelines), for supporting granting of exemptions in the transition phase. 23

Environmental challenges: How can @BluePorts help? 1. Support ports for provision of BW treatment services (opportunity for testing & piloting mobile treatment) 2. Support national authorities with methodologies for effective and efficient ship inspections at BW discharge in port 3. Support port authorities with methodologies for adequate monitoring and risk management in the port receiving waters 4. Help national authorities with risk assessment methodologies (following IMO guidelines), for supporting granting of exemptions in the transition phase. 24

Risk assessment for national authorities: objectives ▪ Assess and minimize risk of spreading NIS from ballast waters: • Map zones with higher and lower risk of NIS spreading / potential definition of exemption areas (A-4) for ballast water exchange 25

Existing regulations on BW 3 risk assessment methods outlined in the IMO Guidelines • Environmental matching risk assessment relies on comparing environmental conditions between locations, • species’ biogeographical risk assessment compares the overlap of native and non-indigenous species to evaluate environmental similarity and to identify high risk invaders, while • species-specific risk assessment evaluates the distribution and characteristics of identified target species ▪ NO officially accepted methodology to perform Risk Assessment ▪ Various found in the literature ▪ HELCOM/OSPAR JHP one of the most prominent methods 26

Risk assessment for national authorities: existing methodologies ▪ OSPAR-HELCOM Risk Assessment algorithm 27

Risk assessment for national authorities: existing methodologies ▪ OSPAR-HELCOM - Web-based tool 28

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