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Sludge/Slop/Bilge Water & Garbage Disposal
Fortune Ship Supplies & Chandlers offers a cost-effective, reliable, comprehensive service for the collection and proper handling of all kind of marine disposals generated by any kind of ships calling port at Chittagong and Mongla in accordance with MARPOL.
Moreover, MARPOL Annex V, which took effect on January 1, 2013, significantly tightened regulations regarding the disposal of garbage from ships. The revised Annex prohibits the discharge of most garbage into the sea, with specific exceptions. It also mandates stricter garbage record-keeping requirements and applies to a wider range of vessel. In that regard, Fortune Ship Supplies & Chandlers committed to provide marine disposals services with the most safely and environmentally friendly methods as possible at the Port or outer anchorage.
Fortune Ship Supplies & Chandlers is fully equipped to remove the Slops-ballast water and tank washing residues (5% of petroleum products freighted, including water), Sludge – Fuel residues from engine room (1%-2% of bunker consumption), Bilge Water- Mixture of oil and water accumulated at the bottom of the vessel. Moreover, MARPOL Annex V sets new regulatory requirements regarding the disposal of garbage, the new amendments prohibit the disposal of almost all kinds of garbage at sea with the exemption under specific requirements of food waste, cargo residues contained in wash water and environmental friendly cleaning agents. As a result of these regulations more and more ships are disposing their ship-generated waste to reception facilities ashore.
Finally, Fortune Ship Supplies & Chandlers is engaged and committed with a clean environment, assisting and providing Ships with the disposal of plastic, food and domestic wasted, cooking oil at both sides Chittagong Port and Mongla Port in Bangladesh.