Antipollution marine units arrive Suez Canal, Chairman Osama Rabie

CAIRO – 23 December 2024: Lieutenant General Osama Rabie, Chairman of the Suez Canal Authority, announced, Monday, the arrival of some marine units of the ‘Antipollution Egypt’ fleet in preparation for the start of providing waste collection and safe disposal services from ships crossing the canal within the northern and southern entrances during the first quarter of next year 2025.

 

The Chairman of the Authority explained that the new service will take into account the application of international environmental standards in accordance with the International Maritime Organization "IMO" by using advanced marine equipment specialized in marine waste removal operations according to environmentally friendly methods, most notably the waste collection vessel ECO SUEZ 1, which is the first unit in the company's environmentally friendly fleet.

Lieutenant General Rabie indicated that contracts are underway to build a group of ships Collecting environmentally friendly waste in cooperation with the authority's shipyards and companies, provided that the contract includes the possibility of establishing hybrid units that operate on alternative fuel.

 

The Chairman of the Authority stressed that adding a new service to collect waste from passing ships, safely dispose of it and recycle it, comes in activation of the Suez Canal Authority's strategy for green transformation by adopting environmentally friendly policies in various activities.

For his part, Chairman of the Board of Directors of V Group, owner of the Greek company Antipollution,  Veron Vaisiliadis, stressed that the new partnership with the Suez Canal is a strong starting point towards localizing the technology of collecting waste from ships in a sustainable and safe manner to create a better sustainable future for the Suez Canal and the surrounding area.

Vaisiliadis explained that the project will be implemented in several stages, as the first stage includes collecting solid waste from ships in waiting areas, followed in the following stages by establishing a factory for fuel derived from waste to produce green hydrogen.

It is worth noting that Antipollution Egypt is an Egyptian joint stock company in partnership between the Suez Canal Authority, represented by the Canal Ropes Company and the Suez Maritime Shipyard Company (subsidiaries of the Authority), the Greek Antipollution Company and Eric Adam, the Egyptian-Greek businessman, to add a new service, which is the collection of solid and liquid marine waste and its recycling, within the logistical services provided to ships crossing the Canal according to the latest international environmental standards.